Ask me for my password!!

[MattG]

This has been going on for a while now, and I was wondering if anyone else has similar issues. I have my computers set to ask for my password when I wake them up, or after they've been in screen-save mode. It seems like at random, any one of the four Macs I use on a regular basis will just stop asking for the password. I just took my main work Mac out of screen save mode after it had been like that all weekend, and it didn't ask for the password. I repaired permissions, went into security and unchecked/rechecked the "Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver" button, but no luck. Does this happen to anyone else? I would consider the possibility of it just being a bad install of OS X, but it happens on all four of my computers at random?!

 

[Queso]

I have this set on my PowerBook and it asks every time. Are you running Intel Macs? It could be yet another Intel-Tiger bug that needs working out.

 

[MattG]

I have this set on my PowerBook and it asks every time. Are you running Intel Macs? It could be yet another Intel-Tiger bug that needs working out.

Yes, they're all Intel Macs.

 

[heehee]

I have a C2D MBP and it asks me for my password when the computer wakes up.

 

[mkrishnan]

Every once in a while you can catch the screensaver just as it kicks in (I'm pretty sure I've seen this in OS X and I know I have in XP) and avoid passwording back in.

But I've never had the experience that the password on wake / resume from screensave stops working suddenly...

I would also have suggested something like a damaged login keychain (which keychain assistant can fix), but if this is happening randomly on four computers, that's unlikely unless you copied the login keychain from one to the others.

I think next step is: what software do you have installed? Anything that changes basic system behavior, modifies the appearance or function of the OS or Finder, or is persistently running in the background?

 

[BugHunter]

Full Screen

The only issue I've had is when running full screen OpenGL applications (such as Warcraft 3) when you wake it up. As far as I can tell it is still asking me for my password, but the OpenGL window is infront of the 'enter your password here window' and you can do a bit of stuff before it goes back to sleep.