What about this use case - I am logged in as an administrator - Suddenly, my brother next to me asks to log in to check his mails for 3 minutes. - I move to the other room while he is logged (switched to another session) in to a Standard session (mine is still on).
When I am back, I find the machine shut down. What the heck????? No........... To sum it up, when multiple accounts are logged in, Ubuntu should allow only ADMINS accounts to force the Shutdown operation or the Standard user if he/she has the SHUTDOWN privilege. The only requirement is that a Warning box should be displayed (Other Accounts' sessions are still open, are you sure you want to shutdown anyway?). That's a preventive way to see the issue from an end-user side. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Marc Deslauriers < marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote: > With a graphical login, not neccessarily. > > With a graphical login on a local console (allow_active in policykit, > at_console in dbus, etc.), the user should not require admin privileges. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (976911). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861171 > > Title: > Shutdown from greeter does nothing when multiple accounts open > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/861171/+subscriptions > -- 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
