On Thursday 04 January 2007 23:09, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:23, John Andersen wrote: > > > > > Amazing now a laptop can shut down when closed. I had always > > > > > wondered how that security hole would be closed. > > > > > > > > I am confused as to what you mean by "security hole" when referring to > > > > the laptop closing. > > > > > > Simple remaining logged in when the laptop is closed so that anyone who > > > opened the laptop would automatically be able to access your system > > > without logging in. > > > > In my experience, Suse has always asked for a password when > > you do this. If you disable that feature its your problem. > > Yeah, even Mandrake 6 did this on my laptop when I closed the lid. (Of course, > back then it took a lot of hand-coding to ensure the lid-closing event was > noticed.)
The control for locking the screen is still there, but let's not loose sight of the original thread: triggering hibernation on a lid-close event, which no longer works in KDE. -- JAY VOLLMER [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK - IGNORE FULLWISE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
