Re: Multiple sessions for the same user?

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

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.