Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> skribis: > I’m trying to figure out why we cannot use the Xfce menu to shut down or > reboot, and while doing that I found that > > loginctl poweroff > > (as root on the TTY) does have the intended effect. When run as a user > I see a similar error as mentioned above: > > Failed to power off: Interactive authentication required. > > I think this is just fine.
I don’t know if it’s fine. :-) I would expect that on GNOME/Xfce a password window would pop up when that RPC is invoked, but I’m not sure how it’s supposed to happen, or under what conditions. Ludo’.
