Why'd my iBook stop asking for my password on wake??

But recently it only asks for a password after I intentionally set it to sleep. It used to always ask for a password to wake. What's going on?
Roger wrote on :

My Security Prefs are set to "Require password to wake from sleep or screensaver." Energy Saver sleep settings for power and batt are set to "Automatic." The computer is set to "Never" sleep.

But recently it only asks for a password after I intentionally set it to sleep. It used to always ask for a password to wake. What's going on?

iBook 600; 10.3.4

Tx, Rog

Tom Stiller replied on :

In article roger-EA9172.14552808082004@redacted.invalid, Roger roger@redacted.invalid wrote:

My Security Prefs are set to "Require password to wake from sleep or screensaver." Energy Saver sleep settings for power and batt are set to "Automatic." The computer is set to "Never" sleep.

If the computer is set to "Never" sleep, it doesn't need waking. It may be that only the display has gone to sleep giving the illusion that the processor is asleep

But recently it only asks for a password after I intentionally set it to sleep. It used to always ask for a password to wake. What's going on?

That's consistent with setting the computer to never sleep.

iBook 600; 10.3.4

Tx, Rog

Roger replied on :

In article tomstiller-0136F0.17500608082004@redacted.invalid, Tom Stiller tomstiller@redacted.invalid wrote:

In article roger-EA9172.14552808082004@redacted.invalid, Roger roger@redacted.invalid wrote:

My Security Prefs are set to "Require password to wake from sleep or screensaver." Energy Saver sleep settings for power and batt are set to "Automatic."

If the computer is set to "Never" sleep, it doesn't need waking. It may be that only the display has gone to sleep giving the illusion that the processor is asleep

But recently it only asks for a password after I intentionally set it to sleep. It used to always ask for a password to wake. What's going on?

That's consistent with setting the computer to never sleep.

Yup, you're right and I don't know why the heck I typed that. The Screensaver is set to "Never." The Energy Saver is set to "Automatic" which is "Put the computer to sleep after X minutes."

But it does indeed, as you say, seem as if only the display is sleeping, as set in Energy Saver; shouldn't that require a password to wake?

Ok, thanks again for the reply.

Help anyone?

Rog

Tom Stiller replied on :

In article roger-8A1774.20481108082004@redacted.invalid, Roger roger@redacted.invalid wrote:

In article tomstiller-0136F0.17500608082004@redacted.invalid, Tom Stiller tomstiller@redacted.invalid wrote:

In article roger-EA9172.14552808082004@redacted.invalid, Roger roger@redacted.invalid wrote:

My Security Prefs are set to "Require password to wake from sleep or screensaver." Energy Saver sleep settings for power and batt are set to "Automatic."

If the computer is set to "Never" sleep, it doesn't need waking. It may be that only the display has gone to sleep giving the illusion that the processor is asleep

But recently it only asks for a password after I intentionally set it to sleep. It used to always ask for a password to wake. What's going on?

That's consistent with setting the computer to never sleep.

Yup, you're right and I don't know why the heck I typed that. The Screensaver is set to "Never." The Energy Saver is set to "Automatic" which is "Put the computer to sleep after X minutes."

But it does indeed, as you say, seem as if only the display is sleeping, as set in Energy Saver; shouldn't that require a password to wake?

Ok, thanks again for the reply.

I don't have an iBook handy, but on my iMac it's impossible to set the screen sleep time value higher than the processor sleep time. The screen sleep slider is constrained to the range of the processor slider.
If I set them both to "Never" and then reduce the processor slider, the display slider reduces along with it. Possibly your ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist file has the wrong permissions or is damaged.