On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:53:25 +0200
Susan Dittmar
Well, that's what my first question was about. My boss thinks that the RAM-written-to-disk lacks in encryption.
see my other mail.
By the way, what would be the recomended way of calling suspend to disk? At least for the ThinkPads I tested on, standard installation (openSUSE 11.3) does *not* activate the corresponding function key, so I cannot look it up there.
It depends. KDE or GNOME? In KDE, it also did not work for me for some reason, I guess the fn-f4 generated keycode is nonstandard. So I set up a keyboard shortcut in the KDE system config that calls a script "kdesuspendtoram.sh" which contains #!/bin/sh exec qdbus org.kde.kded /modules/powerdevil org.kde.PowerDevil.suspend 2 This makes sure that the KDE suspend action is used, which means: lock screen, disconnect network etc, and then suspend. Of course you want suspend to disk and not to RAM, which is probably done by a different number or a different org.kde.PowerDevil method. I don't know. plain "powersave -U" should also suspend to disk, but does not lock the screen (but since you are asking for the passphrase on resume, that should not matter that much). In GNOME, you should first try to configure it in gnome-power-manager preferences, but if that does not work, then gnome surely also offers a way to configure keyboard shortcuts to execute some command. Just do "powersave -U" from there. Good luck, Stefan -- Stefan Seyfried "Any ideas, John?" "Well, surrounding them's out." "Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time." -- Linus Torvalds "Praktische Erfahrung ist viel Wert. Nur mal davon gehört zu haben, daß etwas nicht funktioniert, ist eine Sache - den GNOME Dateidialog selbst benutzt haben zu müssen, eine ganz andere." -- Steffen Winterfeldt I don't know why I dream this way The sky is purple and things are right every day I don't know, it's just this world's so far away But I won't fight, and I won't hate / Well not today "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. [...]. Please, just tell people to use KDE." -- Linus Torvalds "[...] a 'enterprise desktop' should never be allowed to drive development. It is, by definition, boring and same-old, same-old." -- Linus Torvalds "You sure you software suspend guys haven't been hanging out with the IDE maintainers?" -- Rob Landley Never trust a computer you can't lift. You are storing 40 billion bits of information on a lump of metal and glass rotating at 10,000rpm and pushing into areas of quantum theory in order to store you data. It should be no suprise it might not be there a month later. -- Alan Cox "A lonely little useless module - no-one needs it, and it needs no-one else either. How sad." -- okir "Data security manager [...] presents new company security policy. It reads like a help text for a tax declaration" -- draht "I've never seen this before." "Its a blue light." "What does it do?" "Turns blue." "Mit Außerirdischen, die nicht weiter gekommen sind als Microsoft und Apple, will ich persönlich nichts zu tun haben." -- Prof. Harald Lesch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org