[Bug 861171] [NEW] Shutdown from greeter does nothing when multiple accounts open

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by James M. Leddy (jm-leddy):

Selecting shutdown from the greeter does nothing when multiple accounts
are open.

This is because the lightdm user (which the greeter runs as) does not
have permission to shutdown while sessions are open.  Inside a normal
session this would just return you to the login screen.

The solution is either for the indicator to say "not allowed" or to run
a PolicyKit frontend in the greeter than can get the required
permissions to perform the shutdown.

** Affects: indicator-session
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: lightdm-gtk-greeter
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: oem-priority
     Importance: High
     Assignee: James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: oem-priority/precise
     Importance: High
     Assignee: James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: unity-greeter
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: indicator-session (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: policykit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Omer Akram (om26er)
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: iso-testing rls-r-incoming
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Shutdown from greeter does nothing when multiple accounts open
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861171
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