why can't the greeter just say, "X user(s) is/are still logged in. Please log out of all accounts before attempting to shut down or reboot." and ignore all the nastly permissions stuff??
If an admin really needs to shut down, it's easy enough to do via terminal or tty. are there really daily use cases where a standard user needs permission to shut down if other accounts are still logged in? i think we should also consider whether those "other accounts" are most likely to be guest sessions, anyways... -- 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 OEM Priority Project: In Progress Status in OEM Priority Project precise series: In Progress 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
