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[Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've noticed some poor usability when it comes to ubuntu's lightdm and
multiple users. Mainly: If any of the users are logged in you can't reboot.

Example: Lets say you have 3 users logged in. You are logged into the admin
account. You try and reboot from your session, it just kicks you right to
the login screen. Trying to reboot from the login screen does absolutely
nothing. No warning that other users are logged in, no offer to reboot
anyway with a root password prompt or something. The only way for you to
reboot is to switch to a tty and invoke sudo reboot.

This is very un-userfriendly and confusing for users that are not
experienced with the command-line. Such a user would simply not be able to
restart their computer, until they get all the other users on their
computer to enter their password and log out manually first.