Filing this under gnome-shell because I'm not sure where the fast user switching "lives" now (as a plugin, or integrated into the shell). Please feel free to change the component as appropriate... While running the fast user switch test as a part of Nouveau test day (2011-02-22, though I'm just getting to it now ;-) ), I ran into a potential security problem. As the test specified, I logged in as a user "A", selected "switch user", logged in as user "B", and switched repeatedly between the two users. Each time that I switched users, I was prompted to enter a password by GDM when selecting one or the other. However, when I selected "log out" for user "B", I was immediately switched to user "A", with no password prompt - I simply found myself on user "A"'s desktop, with full access to all open apps. My guess is that this isn't desired? I'd have expected that, when logging out of user "B"'s desktop, I'd be returned to GDM with only user "A" still indicated as being logged in, and I'd have to enter user "A"'s password to use that desktop again.
If you switched users from the overview, this is probably because screen locking in the overview is broken. See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637540
*** Bug 680246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
You can also switch between the two users with CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-F7 without needing a password. If you use the [user]->Switch User menu option, it asks for a password, but it's pretty easy to circumvent with vt switching.
(In reply to comment #1) > If you switched users from the overview, this is probably because screen > locking in the overview is broken. See: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637540 Thanks for the heads-up, but it's actually a different problem. I just tested to be sure. Here's all I did to duplicate the problem: * log in as user "A" * choose "Switch User" from the user menu to switch to GDM (shows user "A" logged in) * log in as user "B" * switch to GDM (shows users "A" and "B" logged in) * log in as user "A" * switch to GDM (shows users "A" and "B" logged in) * log in as user "B" * choose "Log Out..." from the user menu * find myself in user "A"'s desktop So it does seem to be a more generalized problem, especially with what Jeff wrote in comment 3. Using gnome-shell-2.91.6-6.fc15.x86_64 (since I forget to mention before), installed from the "gfx test week" live image.
Has there been any progress on this bug? It was reported in February and hasn't been fixed as of today. It's a pretty severe bug in my opinion and needs higher priority than it's had. Forgive me for being blunt about this.
This is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654565
The patch should backport easily if you have security concerns, but I'm not sure it merits an update just on its own.
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