Hi Philip, I too had the problem with shutdown warning other uses were logged in, and prompting for a password. I tracked this down to having installed mythtv on my laptop. I removed it (I was only testing it out anyway) and the problem disappeared. It looks like there is a bug reported against mythtv [1] for this - with a work around described in comment #17. Might try that myself if I put mythtv back on my laptop.
If you dont have mythtv installed, then it looks like others with a similar problem [2] have found out (comment #12) which policies to edit [3]. Not tried this myself as I dont have the problem anymore. Regards, Andrew [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/445953 [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1328592&page=2 [3] http://www.len.ro/2009/11/karmic-various-tricks/ 2009/12/31 Philip Stubbs <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > How do I edit policykit so that it stops asking for a password on > shutdown? When I try and shutdown my machine, a dialog pops up saying > that the current policy does not allow shutting down the machine while > other users are logged in, and requires an admin password to continue. > I believe this makes little sense on a desktop system, and would like > to stop this from happening. All I can find out is that it is > Policykit, but I cant find any way of editing it. > > Regards, > -- > Philip Stubbs > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
