Marco, I can reproduce that with 100% reliability on my 16.04 beta (with all the updates installed). When I see the auth dialog (i.e. after locking the screen or returning from sleep), I hit ctrl+alt+F6 ctrl+alt+F7 and gain access to my system. During the process, nothing at all gets added to /var/log/auth.log user@host:~$ gdbus monitor --system --dest org.freedesktop.login1 & gdbus monitor --session --dest com.canonical.Unity [1] 26646 Monitoring signals from all objects owned by org.freedesktop.login1 The name org.freedesktop.login1 is owned by :1.4 Monitoring signals from all objects owned by com.canonical.Unity The name com.canonical.Unity is owned by :1.14 /org/freedesktop/login1/session/c2: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.Session', {'IdleHint': , 'IdleSinceHint': , 'IdleSinceHintMonotonic': }, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1/seat/seat0: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.Seat', {'IdleHint': , 'IdleSinceHint': , 'IdleSinceHintMonotonic': }, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1/user/_1000: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.User', {'IdleHint': , 'IdleSinceHint': , 'IdleSinceHintMonotonic': }, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.Manager', {'IdleHint': , 'IdleSinceHint': , 'IdleSinceHintMonotonic': }, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1/session/c2: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.Session', {'Active': }, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1/seat/seat0: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.Seat', {'ActiveSession': <('', objectpath '/')>}, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1/session/c2: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.Session', {'Active': }, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1/seat/seat0: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.Seat', {'ActiveSession': <('c2', objectpath '/org/freedesktop/login1/session/c2')>}, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1/session/c2: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.Session', {'IdleHint': , 'IdleSinceHint': , 'IdleSinceHintMonotonic': }, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1/seat/seat0: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.Seat', {'IdleHint': , 'IdleSinceHint': , 'IdleSinceHintMonotonic': }, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1/user/_1000: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.User', {'IdleHint': , 'IdleSinceHint': , 'IdleSinceHintMonotonic': }, @as []) /org/freedesktop/login1: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged ('org.freedesktop.login1.Manager', {'IdleHint': , 'IdleSinceHint': , 'IdleSinceHintMonotonic': }, @as []) ^C user@host:~$