Lock Screen Failure - Desktop Contents Momentarily Visible
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
unity:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 7.5.0+20.
Version table:
7.
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Expected:
When waking the monitor/computer with lock screen enabled, the lock screen should be the first visible screen the user sees.
Actual:
When the Ubuntu workstation has lock screen enabled and wakes the monitor (turns it on), the desktop contents are momentarily visible. Furthermore, while desktop contents are visible the desktop is fully interactive, with working mouse, keyboard, and window-
If a malicious user wants to view desktop contents of a sensitive machine, then they can simply record video while waking the monitor.
This problem renders Ubuntu unusable in secure environments. Since this problem has been around since Ubuntu 16, I suspect a design problem that prevents the lock screen from displaying with the highest priority when the monitor wakes.
Ubuntu seems to be the only operating system to have this lock-screen-
This bug also discussed at https:/
information type: | Private Security → Public Security |
affects: | unity (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |