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When I use dm-tool to lock the screen for userA, I can log in as userB and then use dm-tool to switch back to userA's session without having to enter a password. Is that the expected behavior? If not, how should I switch from A to B without leaving userA exposed?

userA$ dm-tool lock

--> Shows Greeter. Login as userB.

userB$ dm-tool switch-to-user userA

--> Expected this to go to greeter, but it goes right back to userA's session.

Do I have something mis-configured, or what?

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  • I have this problem on 22.10 (lightdm 1.30.0) Jan 4, 2023 at 14:36

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I've tried doing that and what I actually had is not exposed, but locked session of user A.

Say I'm logged in @ Vty/7 as user A and then when I do "dm-tool lock" it switches me to another Vty with new instance of X server and login window. But I can skip login into and easily go back to Vty/7 — pressing Ctrl_Alt_F7. When I do this, I see locked user A session, there's no doubt.

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As of today it looks like this behaviour pertains to an older version than lightdm 1.18.3.

However on lightdm 1.18.3 I encounter that the screen illumination is switched off after

dm-tool switch-to-user userA

The computer (in my case a Lenovo T400 running xubuntu 16.04, currently with kernel 4.10.0-32-generic x86_64) is still running after that, I observe the WLAN LED blinking. In this situation I can use Ctl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console (and the screen light goes on!) which opens with a greeter dialog. But I can also immediately use Ctl+Alt+F7 to return to my GUI session which I left.

It looks to me that there is a bug in dm-tool switch-to-user switching off the screen illumination (at least on my laptop).

Of course, when I am in the console started witn Ctl+Alt+F1 I can log on as a different user and start a GUI issuing

startx

But this is definitely not what is advertized for

switch-to-user USERNAME [SESSION]

"Switch to a user session. If this user is already logged in then the display manager will switch to that session, otherwise a new session is started. If authentication is required a greeter will start to collect this. If the session option is provided then this session type will be used, otherwise the default for this user is used."

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