MacOS – How to make OS X require the password immediately after the display is put to sleep

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I have OS X set to require my password immediately after “sleep or screen saver begins” (and I'm assuming this includes display sleep). Since Mavericks, there seems to be a one-second grace period: if I trigger the screen saver or put the display to sleep, and then immediately hit the shift key or move the mouse, I'm dropped back into my account with no password prompt.

I'm currently running Yosemite.0 (10.10.0). Is this a bug in Mavericks that never got fixed, or what? More importantly, how do I get it to require my password immediately?

Best Answer

By design the first action system does is to save your work in a large file (depending what you had going on) so to be able to wake up exactly to where you left of. Once that is done the next step is to lock it with password.

That action does require time (writing the image), so if you are very quick you can catch your system in the writing action.

Here is a example:

Close lid-->

11/15/14 07:54:30.000 WindowServer[86]: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x7fdfc2449050(2001)

11/15/14 07:54:30.038 WindowServer[86]: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x7fdfc2449050(2001)

Open lid-->

11/15/14 07:54:33.928 WindowServer[86]: CGXDisplayDidWakeNotification [174799469151647]: posting kCGSDisplayDidWake
11/15/14 07:54:33.929 WindowServer[86]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: Deferring.
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