Bug#731882: gdm3: requires root password for reboot

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:13:30 +0100,
Steven Post <redalert.commander at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Dear Maintainer,

Hi,

> 
> As suggested by Andreas Cadhalpun in #731686, I open a new bug for
> this. When trying to reboot from the login screen, the root password
> is asked. After giving the correct password, the system reboots
> normally (only if systemd is used as pid 1).
> 
> This seems to be a regression from 3.4 (now 3.8).

Could you please try something, in /etc/pam.d/ delete the
gdm-launch-environment symlink and then create a file with the same
name with the following content:

#%PAM-1.0
auth    requisite       pam_nologin.so
auth    required        pam_permit.so
@include common-account
session required        pam_limits.so
session required        pam_env.so readenv=1
session required        pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
@include common-session
@include common-password


Then try to reboot the machine and then try if it's still happening

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville