I'd say go for your Alt A, Robert, and I agree that an authentication dialogue is better than the vanilla conf dialogue exactly like you say; This will definitely make the general "wife" or "brother" pause to think 3 seconds before shutting down & killing other sessions.
I guess that power button is accessable to the common user in about 98% of all use cases, and therefore I also agree that any user should be able to perform a proper shutdown if he/she is working locally (either from greeter or from session). HOWEVER, this makes it VERY important to keep in mind what Matthew says about really being pushy on the user...really trying to make him understand that this is serious business. (This learning also comes from Windows where quite a few of us have lost work due to the fact that wife/brother actually shut down the computer without even thinking about other users. Well...maybe not THAT many of us, since I guess Windows in general is considered a 1 user system in more cases than unix.) In the mean time (work-around): For anyone with slight tech knowledge (like myself, and I emphasise slight in this sentence), they are likely to have sudo permissions and be able to perform 'shutdown now' from a terminal anyway. Thanks a lot to you guys in the team who actually FIX things for all of us others who're just whining!! :-) alfs -- 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
