Hello Chris,
> a) How does a laptop turn on unintentionally? ;-)
It happens from time to time on my Dell Latitude 9420. I've shut the system
down at evening and later (or the next morning) I saw that the display was on
and waiting for the passphrase. It even happened twice when it was stored
Just adding my two cents here, since Guilhem referenced that bug on the
mailing list:
a) How does a laptop turn on unintentionally? ;-)
b) Adding such feature (and enabling it by default) has IMO also some
dangers.
Consider that such a system would constantly be powered on
automatically
Package: cryptsetup-initramfs
Version: 2.3.5
Severity: wishlist
If someone is using an encrypted root fs, and the laptop unintentionally turns
on, it would wait for the passphrase until the battery is empty (that's what
happened to me yesterday).
For this reason please let me suggest to add a
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