On Tuesday, August 20, 2019 7:54:40 AM MST Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 8/20/19 4:31 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> At my work, most of the windows laptops have full disk encryption so > >> I asked a coworker for some info. She started her laptop on battery > >> and let it sit at the encryption password prompt for about 30 minutes > >> and nothing happened. She also told me that she has seen other > >> laptops at the office that were probably auto rebooted on Friday and > >> were still waiting at the prompt on Monday. > > > > I should point out that I think this is the Mcafee disk encryption, > > not bitlocker, so that might be different. > > It's exactly as you imply---McAfee waits for a typed password, whereas > bitlocker typically uses TPM and so it proceeds to Windows user login, > which times out and goes to sleep.
When BitLocker is used, and is configured properly, it simply shows a prompt forever. By "configured properly", I mean simply configured to use a password. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com> Splentity https://splentity.com/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
