Mac doesn't lock with full screen keynote presentation

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Mac doesn't lock with full screen keynote presentation

Hi,

I have the option enabled in the settings to lock the screen when waking from sleep.

Normal behaviour - close the lid of the laptop to go to sleep. When you open it, it will ask for a password.

Keynote behaviour - open a presentation and play it fullscreen. Close the lid and the machine goes to sleep, when you open it you are back on the presentation with no password and unrestricted access to the computer.

This seems like a huge security oversight for OSX. When you close the lid of the laptop, you expect it to be locked when someone else tries to use the computer next. If you happen to leave a fullscreen keynote running it bypasses the security measures.

Posted on Jun 18, 2011 6:49 PM

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tjk

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Jun 18, 2011 6:59 PM in response to dave9191

Hi Dave,

Is the complete system going to sleep (the sleep light is pulsating), or just the display output?

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Jun 19, 2011 4:01 AM in response to tjk

Hi tjk,

Thanks for your reply.

The mac is going to sleep.

The issue seems to be that full screen keynote presentations override the screensaver coming on automatically - to stop the presentation being inturrupted. It is the screensaver which provides the screen lock when the system wakes up from sleep.

Whilest you don't want the screen saver to inturrupt presetnations, you do want your system locked when it wakes up from sleep. It seems to be an oversight.

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tjk

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Jun 19, 2011 10:16 AM in response to dave9191

Try setting the screen saver to never and using Computer sleep in Energy Saver Prefs.

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Jun 19, 2011 4:30 PM in response to tjk

The screen saver is already set to never. But it is still the screen saver application with a blank screen that is being used by osx to lock the screen. Its simply a case of the Keynote presentation in full screen over-riding the security feature. Thanks for your replies.

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tjk

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Jun 19, 2011 5:22 PM in response to dave9191

In Security Prefs, do you have the checkbox checked for Require password immediately after sleep or screensaver begins?

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Jun 20, 2011 12:03 AM in response to tjk

Yes, otherwise the screen wouldn't lock in every other instance of closing the lid.

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