Dne, 25. 11. 2009 05:19:13 je Brian Denheyer napisal(a): > I know that if I let the screen saver kick in, it does _not_ lock the > screen, as per the setting, so my thinking is that it's a switch user > bug.
Just a thought. There are at least two distinct rationales why you would want to switch users: 1) enable the new user to access his/her account and personal files without worrying about file permissions and other things 2) protect users from messing up each other's accounts and personal files 3) other, more specific reasons ... Of course, we may only be interested in 1) and set separate user accounts only for the sake of practicality. In this case, we need not protect users from accessing each other's files and may in fact set up passwordless accounts. Great if all the users are members of the same family and/or we can be sure they are not up for pranks, mischiefs or even mistakes (such as deleting important personal files by mistake or inadvertently creating 20 "New Folders" on your desktop). This case can, for many intents and purposes, be replaced by only one common account instead of separate accounts; for simplicity, you could only have one account for, say, an entire family, and just create separate Documents or Personal subfolders within that shared account. If however, we're also interested in 2), then we generally set up passwords for user accounts. In the latter case, why in the world would we allow users to freely roam from account to account by simply pressing Alt-F7, Alt-F8 etc? IMHO, forcing a password is the rational policy in these cases, and can not be considered a bug in any sense of the term. Just my 2ยข. -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org