Review Request 117091: Force the screen locker's greeter to show the password input field in case of immediateLock

Wolfgang Bauer wbauer at tmo.at
Thu Apr 24 23:20:10 BST 2014


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(Updated April 24, 2014, 10:20 p.m.)


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This change has been marked as submitted.


Review request for kde-workspace, Plasma and Aaron J. Seigo.


Bugs: 327947 and 329076
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327947
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329076


Repository: kde-workspace


Description
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If the screen locker is set to not require a password to unlock, it will not show the password input field even when the powermanagement settings suspend the system and are set to require a password after resume (when it was already running at that point).
This locks people out of their system.

This patch adds a signal handler for SIGUSR1 that switches the running greeter to immediateLock mode. The locker sends that signal to make sure the greeter shows the password input field when necessary.


Diffs
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  ksmserver/screenlocker/greeter/greeterapp.h 8b79188 
  ksmserver/screenlocker/greeter/greeterapp.cpp c5e2f85 
  ksmserver/screenlocker/greeter/main.cpp d898734 
  ksmserver/screenlocker/ksldapp.cpp 3dfcc9e 

Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117091/diff/


Testing
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Disable "Require password after" in the screen locker settings (the default), set it to start after 1 min. (for easier testing).
Enable "Suspend session after" and set it to 2 minutes. (set the action to "Suspend", "Hibernate", or "Lock Screen", doesn't matter)
Make sure "Lock screen on resume" is enabled in the powermanagements "Advanced Options" (it is by default).

After 1 minute the screen locker kicks in, and doesn't require a password.
After 2 minutes the session gets suspended, hibernated or locked, and requires a password to resume.

Without this patch no password dialog is shown, the user cannot resume the session by entering the password.

With this patch this works: there is a password input field, the session is unlocked when the user enters the password.


Thanks,

Wolfgang Bauer

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