I had an issue where I’d get a pop-up message when going to reboot or shutdown saying that the administrator password was required in order to shut down with multiple users logged in.
How to solve this. Well first of all locate this file org.freedesktop.consolekit.policy . After this you will have something like this
Stop the system
System policy prevents stopping the system
no
yes
Stop the system when multiple users are logged in
System policy prevents stopping the system when other users are logged in
no
auth_admin_keep
Restart the system
System policy prevents restarting the system
no
yes
Restart the system when multiple users are logged in
System policy prevents restarting the system when other users are logged in
no
auth_admin_keep
Well you have to modify it like this
Stop the system
System policy prevents stopping the system
no
yes
Stop the system when multiple users are logged in
System policy prevents stopping the system when other users are logged in
no
yes
Restart the system
System policy prevents restarting the system
no
yes
Restart the system when multiple users are logged in
System policy prevents restarting the system when other users are logged in
no
yes
Basically you replace
with
