Root priviledges needed to poweroff

[Adam Pribyl]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, ergodic wrote:

> Executing poweroff in F-17 (x86_64 up to date) defaults to the "Authentication is required for powering off the system while other users are logged in" snippet.
>
> Only one user (user1) actually logged in, however results from "who" and "users" show otherwise:
>
> # who
> user1 :0 2012-07-23 13:04 (:0)
> user1 pts/0 2012-07-23 14:39 (:0)
> root pts/1 2012-07-23 14:39 (:0)
> root pts/2 2012-07-23 14:39 (:0)
> root pts/3 2012-07-23 14:39 (:0)
> root pts/4 2012-07-23 14:39 (:0)

Those are IMHO some term started with root privileges. As soon as tehere 
is a anybody else logged except the user which is going to poweroff, then 
powerof complains about other user logged any - looks correct to me.


> Is this correct or is it there a problem?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Adam Pribyl