Automatic login still requires user password after suspend/hibernate

[Niklas Rosenqvist]

Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10
gnome-control-center 3.26.2

When I set Ubuntu to automatically login a user the user still has to enter their password when resuming from a suspended session. The only option I can find to fix this is to disable the lock-screen completely, which I don't want to since I still want it to be an option to manually lock it. Setting Privacy > Screen Lock to off doesn't affect this behavior at all.

The solution seems to be to use dconf-editor and change org.gnome.desktop.screensaver.ubuntu-lock-on-suspend to false. I got the solution after asking on askubuntu.com: https://askubuntu.com/questions/990056/turn-off-requesting-user-password-after-suspend-17-10

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ted Fry (tedfry)]

I've got this issue as well. Automatic login, no requirement for a password on the screen lock. When resuming from suspend, the password is required. The user account used for this is not an administrator user. Fresh install, no changes.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that's not really a bug or a new behaviour, automatic login is about login not about unlock. In any case not a control center issue

[Niklas Rosenqvist (niklas-s-rosenqvist)]

To a normal user I'm pretty sure that it would be a UX issue, even though technically it's different between login and unlock, UX wise it isnt. If a user reboots or suspends the computer they wouldn't expect it to behave differently, a lot of people don't even understand the difference between a system suspend and shutdown. Please reconsider the priority of this issue. Thanks!

[aleandro (aleandrodasilva)]

Ubuntu 18.04 dev.

When resuming from suspend, the password is required. There is no way to control this behaviour from the control center in the settings.
I had to set this by command line:
 gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver ubuntu-lock-on-suspend 'false'

I remember I could control this option in ubuntu 17.04 from a GUI but I installed ubuntu 18.04 dev and cannot say yet how I did it.

[Wolf (drechsel)]

Being a more or less "normal" user, I find this behaviour highly unexpected.

When I decide for auto-login, I do decide that access control to my computer is carried out by my house door and its locks, I do not want to be bothered with password prompts after every resume.

[Stan (rotwhiler)]

I agree with Wolf. To me login and unlock are the same (login is first unlock and unlock is any subsequent unlock), and I expect the setting to not ask for a password to apply in both cases.