With the installation of Leap 15, I was able to ‘deactivate’ kwallet. Desktop is KDE. Everything worked well,
now almost everything still works well with the exception of login after a regular shutdown and power off,
where no password is needed (!!!). When there is no activity for 5 minutes or more, I have to login to
resume my session, and then a password is required.
kwallet is installed, but deactivated. Apart from this, no ‘non-openSuSE’ is installed, exception is VLC.
Any feedback on this one? Thanks in advance,
Jan Christian
What I think you are seeing, is that your screen is being locked after a period of no activity. And you are required to give a password to unlock the screen. You aren’t actually doing a login.
Configure Desktop → Desktop Behavior
Look at the left margin. One of the options is “Screen Locking”. Click on that.
Uncheck the box “Lock screen automatically after:”
You can also change time. I have the time for that set to 30 minutes, but I have unchecked the box. My screen never automatically locks. The screen does blank after a time, but I’m not sure if that’s from the 30 minutes for “Screen Locking” or for the 30 minutes to switch off the screen (in Power Settings).
I thought I made it sufficiently clear that the problem occurs after a regular shutdown. Example: Shutdown in the evening (shutdown with power off), then power on and login in the morning after some 10 hours: No request for system password (but request for wifi password as intended). And, to avoid misunderstandings, the wifi password is quite different from the system login password.
Sorry for not being sufficiently clear in my first posting!
Jan Christian
This means you have autologin enabled. Use YaST > System > sysconfigeditor, search for AUTOLOGIN, remove your username, confirm the change, reboot and you should be prompted for your password.
I think the confusion comes from the fact that you describe two things:
login after boot (where you say there is no password needed);
unlocking the screen (where you say there is a password needed).
It wasn’t clear which one of both was NOT what you expected.
But when you login after boot, there are filelds for your username and for your password? I assume then that you fill in both. Is your password then rejected? And do you then retry with your usename, but an empty password field and do you get in then?
As you see ,it is still not quite claer to me waht you do and see. Sorry, but the inability to look over shoulders at an another place on the globe means that rather extensive and precise explanation is needed.
Example: Shutdown in the evening (shutdown with power off), then power on and login in the morning after some 10 hours: No request for system password (but request for wifi password as intended). And, to avoid misunderstandings, the wifi password is quite different from the system login password.
Okay. But when you say “login in the morning”, I’m not sure whether you are referring to autologin or whether you are saying that you need to enter a password. And when you say “No request for system password” does that mean that autologin worked (no password request), or does that only mean that you were not prompted for the root password?
And, for that matter, when you say “shutdown with power off”, I’m not sure whether you really mean shutdown or just hibernate (because it does want a use password to resume from hibernation).
I now see Knurpht’s assumptions. That could indeed be true. But when you have autologin on, you have done that yourself (or your system manager, but I assume that that is the same physical person as the user).
Your assumption about the system manager is correct. But I have absolutely no clue as to who turned the autologin option on. You get some points about suggesting ‘doing that yourself’ - generally it is a very good assumption for my particular case - but I have not been fooling around with the software since some time; the autologin option was not active a long time after my last attempt to earn a self-inflicted wound. I plead ‘not guilty’.