PolicyKit does not allow you to reboot when others are logged in
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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policykit-desktop-privileges (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Quantal |
Won't Fix
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
The default behavior for someone trying to reboot or even shutdown a system when someone else is logged in is to just to log them out kick them back to the login screen, without even explaining. For instance, I set up two separate accounts on my then girlfriend's machine. She was an admin, I was not. Whenever I would use the machine, I would log in, sometimes I forgot to log out. Then, as a novice user, she would not be able to shutdown the machine. I wound up having to teach her how to open a terminal and issue 'sudo poweroff' in order for her to override it.
We've received a request to change this for an OEM, and on their pre-install images we have a policy that allows you to power off even if someone else is logged in. We used the instructions here: http://
I'd like to get this into Ubuntu proper, seems like policykit-
Related branches
tags: | added: blocks-hwcert-enablement |
tags: | removed: rls-q-incoming |
tags: | removed: blocks-hwcert-enablement |
Just tested, this branch works for me.