[plug] ubuntu 8.10 won't shutdown

[Adam Hewitt]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Gavin Chester <gavin.chester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:55 +0900, jasonposavec at iinet.net.au wrote:
>> Aside from not shutting down, I now seem to have to go through a
>> 2-part process to shut my computer down rather just one before. I now
>> have to log out as user, then shutdown from the login screen. Before
>> upgrading it was a simple process just to shutdown from my user login.
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this change after upgrading, and how can
>> it be remidied.
>
> I'm not using your distro, nor probably your desktop, but surely that's
> a security feature on a OS that is inherently multi-user in order to
> prevent inadvertently killing other user's sessions by shutting down?
>
> Gavin.
>

I am running 8.10 and when I go to shutdown whilst logged in, I get a
Gnome security message pop up and it requires me to enter my password
to continue to shutdown (which it does perfectly well). The popup
mentions something along the lines of "This system may have other
users logged in, if you really wish to continue shutting down then
enter your password below"

Adam.