Bug#731882: gdm3: requires root password for reboot

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:27:43 +0100,
Steven Post <redalert.commander at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 
> Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion.
> It still happens after changing that file in /etc/pam.d and then
> rebooting, no change whatsoever in behaviour that I can tell. I did
> notice that the password prompt is only displayed when previously
> logged in (Gnome session).
> 
> No password prompt:
> 1) (re)boot starts gdm3
> 2) restart from login screen
> 
> Password prompt is shown:
> 1) (re)boot starts gdm3
> 2) log into Gnome
> 3) logout
> 4) restart from login screen
> 
> Perhaps the session doesn't close completely? I remember from
> (pre-)3.4 that a logged in user shutting down the machine also got
> the password prompt when another session (such as a root terminal
> session) was still open. If so, maybe this bug needs to re-assigned
> to a more appropriate package, but I don't know which.

The fact that you cannot reboot the machine if somebody else is logged
in without root confirmation is a feature.

Could you please post here the output of ck-list-sessions and the
output of loginctl please.

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville