David Zeuthen wrote:
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:18 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sunday 04 March 2007 12:10:13 Michaël Vanderheeren wrote:
> > There are 2 accounts on a computer, call them A and B. Each account has
> > it's own different password.
> >
> > Person A starts up the computer and logs in. But at a certain point
> > person B wants to use his account for 5 minutes. So he uses the Fast
> > User Switch. As this happens person A's account stays active. But…
> > person B can switch back to person A's account without entering a
> > password! So if person A is gone for a while, person B can steal his
> > documents, delete files, …
>
> Fast User Switching by default enables the screen lock when a user is
> switched
> away from. Could there be a problem with your screen lock?
Yes, when a session is switched away from, gnome-screensaver, at least
(don't know about KDE / others)
Maybe it could/should use xdg-utils' and emit:
xdg-screensaver lock
on switching?
(Hrm, unless someone/somewhere purposefully doesn't want the screen to lock
on user switch)
-- Rex