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How to prevent cleaning lady from hunging my lock screen in ubuntu 16.04

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In my workplace I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with unity, standard installation. When I'm leaving my office I lock my screen (ctrl+alt+l). At evening cleaning lady comes and clean our office. Few time already I get back to work in the morning and my headphones are on my keyboard. My lock screen is hung, I can't clear password field, can't type anything, can't use any other controls on lock screen (reboot, turn off button etc.). Mouse is working but clicking does nothing. Probably because input password field took huge input overnight and broke everything else. Cleaning lady "hacked" my computer :)

How can I prevent this? Can I somehow limit how many characters can be passed to password input? Can I block lock screen until I use some keyboard keys combination to enable password input? Something similar to ctrl+alt+del in windows before I can input password to lock screen?

//EDIT
As @bytecommander wrote there was a bug for this and it is supposed to be fixed but somehow this does not work on my machine https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1538615

$ apt policy unity-greeter                                                                                                                                            

unity-greeter:

  Installed: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1

  Candidate: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1

  Version table:

 *** 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 500

        500 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

16.04 unity lock-screen

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  Power it down, take it home with you, unplug the keyboard if it's not a laptop, tell hr, AFAIR there's not much you can do security wise once someone physically gets a hold of your machine
  
  – j-money
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  @j-money I don't think the lady attempts to hack the machine but rather think she just thoroughly cleans the keyboard thereby pressing all the keys. A dust cover and/or this note might help.
  
  – PerlDuck
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  @PerlDuck maybe that's what she wants you to think!! (couldn't resist)
  
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In my workplace I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with unity, standard installation. When I'm leaving my office I lock my screen (ctrl+alt+l). At evening cleaning lady comes and clean our office. Few time already I get back to work in the morning and my headphones are on my keyboard. My lock screen is hung, I can't clear password field, can't type anything, can't use any other controls on lock screen (reboot, turn off button etc.). Mouse is working but clicking does nothing. Probably because input password field took huge input overnight and broke everything else. Cleaning lady "hacked" my computer :)

How can I prevent this? Can I somehow limit how many characters can be passed to password input? Can I block lock screen until I use some keyboard keys combination to enable password input? Something similar to ctrl+alt+del in windows before I can input password to lock screen?

//EDIT
As @bytecommander wrote there was a bug for this and it is supposed to be fixed but somehow this does not work on my machine https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1538615

$ apt policy unity-greeter                                                                                                                                            

unity-greeter:

  Installed: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1

  Candidate: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1

  Version table:

 *** 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 500

        500 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

16.04 unity lock-screen

share|improve this question

edited 5 mins ago

piotrekkr

asked 1 hour ago

piotrekkrpiotrekkr

218139

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  Power it down, take it home with you, unplug the keyboard if it's not a laptop, tell hr, AFAIR there's not much you can do security wise once someone physically gets a hold of your machine
  
  – j-money
  59 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  @j-money I don't think the lady attempts to hack the machine but rather think she just thoroughly cleans the keyboard thereby pressing all the keys. A dust cover and/or this note might help.
  
  – PerlDuck
  21 mins ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @PerlDuck maybe that's what she wants you to think!! (couldn't resist)
  
  – j-money
  17 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

In my workplace I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with unity, standard installation. When I'm leaving my office I lock my screen (ctrl+alt+l). At evening cleaning lady comes and clean our office. Few time already I get back to work in the morning and my headphones are on my keyboard. My lock screen is hung, I can't clear password field, can't type anything, can't use any other controls on lock screen (reboot, turn off button etc.). Mouse is working but clicking does nothing. Probably because input password field took huge input overnight and broke everything else. Cleaning lady "hacked" my computer :)

How can I prevent this? Can I somehow limit how many characters can be passed to password input? Can I block lock screen until I use some keyboard keys combination to enable password input? Something similar to ctrl+alt+del in windows before I can input password to lock screen?

//EDIT
As @bytecommander wrote there was a bug for this and it is supposed to be fixed but somehow this does not work on my machine https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1538615

$ apt policy unity-greeter                                                                                                                                            

unity-greeter:

  Installed: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1

  Candidate: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1

  Version table:

 *** 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 500

        500 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

16.04 unity lock-screen

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$ apt policy unity-greeter                                                                                                                                            

unity-greeter:

  Installed: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1

  Candidate: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1

  Version table:

 *** 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 500

        500 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

share|improve this question

edited 5 mins ago

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Seems like your cleaning lady has successfully managed to emulate a cat.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1538615

There was a bug in unity-greeter in 14.04 and up to 16.04, which caused the lock screen to become unresponsive when there has been excessive keyboard input for some time (figuratively and literally a "cat on the keyboard").

It should be fixed since unity-greeter version 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 though by implementing a character limit. Please check your installed version with

apt policy unity-greeter

and make sure your system is fully updated with

sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade

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answered 51 mins ago

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  I have version with fix: apt policy unity-greeter unity-greeter: Installed: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 500 and apparently it is not fixed...
  
  – piotrekkr
  39 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

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You can install xtrlock:

$ sudo apt-get install xtrlock

And made a combination for lock screen and lock keyboard, until you press the combination again. Make it hard and then the cleaning lady have a hard chance to hit and "hack" your computer.

I hope it help you with that. Regards

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4

Seems like your cleaning lady has successfully managed to emulate a cat.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1538615

There was a bug in unity-greeter in 14.04 and up to 16.04, which caused the lock screen to become unresponsive when there has been excessive keyboard input for some time (figuratively and literally a "cat on the keyboard").

It should be fixed since unity-greeter version 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 though by implementing a character limit. Please check your installed version with

apt policy unity-greeter

and make sure your system is fully updated with

sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade

share|improve this answer

answered 51 mins ago

Byte CommanderByte Commander

65.2k27178300

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I have version with fix: apt policy unity-greeter unity-greeter: Installed: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 500 and apparently it is not fixed...
  
  – piotrekkr
  39 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

4

Seems like your cleaning lady has successfully managed to emulate a cat.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1538615

There was a bug in unity-greeter in 14.04 and up to 16.04, which caused the lock screen to become unresponsive when there has been excessive keyboard input for some time (figuratively and literally a "cat on the keyboard").

It should be fixed since unity-greeter version 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 though by implementing a character limit. Please check your installed version with

apt policy unity-greeter

and make sure your system is fully updated with

sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade

share|improve this answer

answered 51 mins ago

Byte CommanderByte Commander

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I have version with fix: apt policy unity-greeter unity-greeter: Installed: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 500 and apparently it is not fixed...
  
  – piotrekkr
  39 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

Seems like your cleaning lady has successfully managed to emulate a cat.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1538615

There was a bug in unity-greeter in 14.04 and up to 16.04, which caused the lock screen to become unresponsive when there has been excessive keyboard input for some time (figuratively and literally a "cat on the keyboard").

It should be fixed since unity-greeter version 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 though by implementing a character limit. Please check your installed version with

apt policy unity-greeter

and make sure your system is fully updated with

sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade

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answered 51 mins ago

Byte CommanderByte Commander

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apt policy unity-greeter

sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade

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answered 51 mins ago

Byte CommanderByte Commander

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answered 51 mins ago

Byte CommanderByte Commander

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answered 51 mins ago

Byte CommanderByte Commander

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You can install xtrlock:

$ sudo apt-get install xtrlock

And made a combination for lock screen and lock keyboard, until you press the combination again. Make it hard and then the cleaning lady have a hard chance to hit and "hack" your computer.

I hope it help you with that. Regards

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answered 49 mins ago

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You can install xtrlock:

$ sudo apt-get install xtrlock

And made a combination for lock screen and lock keyboard, until you press the combination again. Make it hard and then the cleaning lady have a hard chance to hit and "hack" your computer.

I hope it help you with that. Regards

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You can install xtrlock:

$ sudo apt-get install xtrlock

And made a combination for lock screen and lock keyboard, until you press the combination again. Make it hard and then the cleaning lady have a hard chance to hit and "hack" your computer.

I hope it help you with that. Regards

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$ sudo apt-get install xtrlock

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