Re: Multiple sessions for the same user?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Would generating a message that says "user x is requesting reboot
priviledges" be appropriate in this case?  That at least will give other
users working remotely a chance to save their work.  I can see this
useful in a machine with multiple VNC/NX sessions at least in a
corporate environment.

sri

On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 09:43 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2007 11:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com> wrote:
> > Yeah, that's a good question and I'm not sure why not.  I think most of
> > us have a single person per computer but I can see where you have one
> > person logged in via FUSA and one reboots while the other person has
> > some spreadsheet or something he hasn't run yet. I'm not sure how one
> > would handle that situation unless there is a quorum that each person
> > will give their okay to reboot the machine. (which can be pretty
> > annoying if it's your box)
> >
> 
> The plan for the new gdm is to require superuser privileges to reboot
> when there are multiple sessions, but allow all users to reboot when
> there is only one session. This will be configurable via PolicyKit.
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