Having GMenu open prevents screen from locking -- possible security risk?

[runemaste644]

Note: these steps MUST be performed on a laptop and it must be configured to lock the screen when the laptop lid is closed.
1. Login to Gnome
2. Open the applications menu
3. WITHOUT closing the app menu, close the laptop lid.
4. Open laptop lid again
You should notice that it doesnt prompt for the password. This would be bad if you had synaptic, a root terminal or worse open. Even if you had none of those open, someone could rm -rf your home folder.
Note: This was done on Feisty, but i think it would be reproducible in Gutsy.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.