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After installing the most recent Mac OS X update (10.9.4), I put my macbook into sleep mode. Then I woke it by pressing any key (which then showed the login prompt), and to my surprise I was able to bypass the login prompt by just hitting the ESC key. I don't know if this was a behavior that existed prior to this update, but it seems like a serious problem! Has anyone else experienced this?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, Other OS
Is that behavior reproducible? Is the escape key the only one that bypasses the password prompt?
For me, it simply puts it back to sleep. I'm on OS X 10.9.4 as well.
Well, just tried it again and now it's not showing this behavior. It was only doing this with the escape key. The weird thing is after closer inspection the password is set to come on after 5 minutes after sleep, but it was showing the login immediately when I pressed a key after putting it to sleep (through the Apple menu). My guess is the login screen was being displayed prematurely and when I pressed escape it went back to sleep and when I touch the touch pad it woke up as usual (since it hadn't been 5 minutes yet).
Well, I can't reproduce it, so I guess thats it.
I'm experiencing this behavior.
Mid 2014 Macbook Pro running Yosemite.
I have "turn screen off after ___ minutes inactivity" set to 1 minute though that doesn't seem to matter.
If I press Apple >> Sleep >> it brings up the login screen. Press ESC and it goes black. Press any key or click the trackpad and it goes to the desktop.
Nash
Yes! I have the exact same problem! And I am also able to replicate this behaviour over and over again! What is the Solution ??
Hey Ramananirudh!
It seems to me that we were looking at this the wrong way. Rather than "bypassing the login screen" I think what's happening is that it's erroneously showing us the login screen.
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In System Preferences >> Security >> General there is a setting "Require password _______ after going to sleep". I had this set to 15 minutes. This behavior went away when I set it to immediately, or waited the 15 minute period. It never should have showed the login screen to begin with and because it did, we thought it was getting bypassed.
Does that make sense?
Naresh "Nash" Chandranatha
Oh, in other words knyarko was right all along!
Oh... Yes!
Makes sense!
I just tried pressing the esc button after the 5 minutes that I had set ... and it didn't bypass!
I guess I will just set it to 'immediately' ... Clearly the most safe option.
Thanks a lot !
Able to Bypass Login Screen by Hitting ESC
