[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#605283: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Locks login manager with root password if xtrlock is installed and machine is suspended with no user being logged in

[Axel Beckert]

Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts
Version: 1.1.10
Severity: minor

[The following does no more happen with eeepc-acpi-scripts 1.1.11 due to
 acpi-support does not (yet) support xtrlock, see
 http://bugs.debian.org/605276. So it's basically a squeeze-only bug for
 documenting the cause and workarounds.]

In the seldom case that a) xtrlock is installed and b) no user is logged
in (e.g. X shows the login manager, in my case gdm), the login manager
itself is locked with xtrlock running under root and therefore requiring
the root password to unlock. (LOCK_SCREEN_ON_SUSPEND is set to yes by
default in eeepc-acpi-scripts.)

This is annoying if it happens, but should be only a problem if c) the
user who currently uses the laptop is not also root or d) forgot the
root password (e.g. because of using sudo all the time).

Since I expect c) to be a very rare case with EeePCs (maybe someone's
partner using the laptop, can't imagine such a setup is used in business
environments) and d) can be workarounded easily by switching to the text
console, logging in as user and calling "sudo killall -KILL xtrlock" or
equivalent, I don't think the impact is very high.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts depends on:
ii  acpid                         1:2.0.7-1  Advanced Configuration and Power I
ii  pm-utils                      1.3.0-3    utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  rfkill                        0.4-1      tool for enabling and disabling wi

eeepc-acpi-scripts recommends no packages.

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts suggests:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.23-3   Utilities for configuring and usin
ii  libnotify-bin                 0.5.0-2    sends desktop notifications to a n

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