Why are you talking about notifications and password prompts, the computer should shut down (by default) of course! It could prompt and say "X is logged in, are you really sure you want to shut down?" but nothing more. If an admin wants to disable it there should be a way to do that instead. Let's say I'm logged in but I'm not at home and my wife wants to shut down the computer. Of course she should be allowed to!
Therefore I think setting org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop- multiple-users to allow_active=yes is a great and correct solution. What's missing there is a local override solution so and admin of a multi-seat server could turn it off for example without having it overwritten everytime policykit updates. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861171 Title: Shutdown from greeter does nothing when multiple accounts open Status in The Session Menu: Triaged Status in LightDM GTK+ Greeter: Triaged Status in Unity Greeter: Triaged Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “policykit” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Selecting shutdown from the greeter does nothing when multiple accounts are open. This is because the lightdm user (which the greeter runs as) does not have permission to shutdown while sessions are open. Inside a normal session this would just return you to the login screen. The solution is either for the indicator to say "not allowed" or to run a PolicyKit frontend in the greeter than can get the required permissions to perform the shutdown. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/861171/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
