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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 15:58 -0400, Brandon Watkins wrote:
> 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.

It's simply a bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/861171

Marc.