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June 1, 2012

Fix The Shutdown/Reboot Issue With Multiple Users

Filed under: Linux — Tags: , , — admin @ 12:01 pm

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
auth_admin_keep
with
yes

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