need root permission to poweroff

[Ahmad Samir]

On 16 March 2014 12:46, Peter Lesterhuis <peterlesterhuis at tiscali.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
> Since a couple of days I need root permission to poweroff.
> It seems that there is a second user logged into the machine.
>
> $ who
> peter    :0           2014-03-10 19:04 (:0)
> peter    pts/0        2014-03-16 11:36 (:0)
>
> $ users
> peter peter
>
> I don' t know hwat caused it, perhaps by shh from another machine.
> What can I do to get rid of this problem.
>
>
You can check the logs:
- In terminal as root 'journalctl -f'
- Try to poweroff, and when it asks for the root password, cancel out of
the dialog
- Check the terminal window, polkit usually prints a message when
authentication is invoked

using the info from the logs you can further investigate what it's asking
for authentication for; and/or add a custom polkit rule to allow you to
poweroff without having to type the root password every time.

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Ahmad Samir
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