Ubuntu
gdm3 package

Automatic login still requires user password after suspend/hibernate

Bug #1740792 reported by Niklas Rosenqvist
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm3 (Baltix)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
gdm3 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

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

Tags: bionic
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ted Fry (tedfry) wrote :

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.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) → gdm3 (Ubuntu)
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Niklas Rosenqvist (niklas-s-rosenqvist) wrote :

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!

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aleandro (aleandrodasilva) wrote :

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.

Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)
tags: added: bionic
Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)
Changed in gdm3 (Baltix):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Wolf (drechsel) wrote :

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.

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Stan (rotwhiler) wrote :

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.

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