Bug 906080

Summary:	authentication is required to poweroff machine when only one user is logged in
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	cornel panceac <cpanceac>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	extras-orphan, johannbg, lnykryn, metherid, mschmidt, msekleta, notting, plautrba, systemd-maint, vpavlin
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Description cornel panceac 2013-01-30 19:42:48 UTC

Description of problem:
On systems that have exactly one user each, attempting to power off the machine requires to enter a password, pretending that many users are logged in.
This is not a problem but only a hassle for an advanced user, who understands what's going on, but a regular user prefers to cut the power to the system than try in vain to understand what is going on.

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How reproducible:
way too often

Steps to Reproduce:
1.login to gnome, browse internet, watch some pictures
2.attempt to power off
3.
  
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Expected results:


Additional info:
this is usually reproduced in fallback mode of gnome, since -shell is mostly unusable on computers not very powerfull. (like athlon 64 3200+, with 1GB RAM, nvidia 6200 video card, 80 gb WDC hard disk)

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2013-01-30 22:21:54 UTC

What's the output of 'loginctl' when this happens?

Comment 2 Michal Schmidt 2013-01-30 22:37:59 UTC

When you do that, you'll probably find a cron session running anacron running one of its random-length sleep processes.

Please give systemd-197-1.fc18.2 from updates-testing a try.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-1590/systemd-197-1.fc18.2

As noted in the update description:
> logind will ignore non-tty/non-X11 sessions when checking for other
> sessions before shutdown.

This is bug 890827. Closing as a duplicate. Reopen if I'm wrong about this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 890827 ***