https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846914
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846914#c1
Guido Berhörster
13.1 RC1 with XFCE - when hibernating, the system requests root's password.
This is a laptop, so this should never happen.
It asks for the root password, because it says another user is logged in - which is false.
There is a leftover dbus process from a session, did you log in at 00:38:35 then log out and log in again at 00:44:38?
cer@Minas-Anor:~> loginctl list-sessions SESSION UID USER SEAT 2 1000 cer seat0 5 488 lightdm seat0 6 1000 cer seat0
3 sessions listed. cer@Minas-Anor:~> loginctl show-session -al 2 Id=2 Timestamp=Sun 2013-10-20 00:38:35 CEST TimestampMonotonic=33175076 VTNr=7 Seat=[unprintable] TTY= Display=:0 Remote=no RemoteUser= RemoteHost= Service=lightdm Scope=session-2.scope Leader=992 Audit=2 Type=x11 Class=user Active=no State=closing IdleHint=no IdleSinceHint=0 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0 User=[unprintable] Name=cer cer@Minas-Anor:~>
cer@Minas-Anor:~> loginctl show-session -al 5 Id=5 Timestamp=Sun 2013-10-20 00:44:33 CEST TimestampMonotonic=390647494 VTNr=7 Seat=[unprintable] TTY= Display=:0 Remote=no RemoteUser= RemoteHost= Service=lightdm-greeter Scope=session-5.scope Leader=1672 Audit=5 Type=x11 Class=user Active=no State=closing IdleHint=no IdleSinceHint=0 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0 User=[unprintable] Name=lightdm cer@Minas-Anor:~> loginctl show-session -al 6 Id=6 Timestamp=Sun 2013-10-20 00:44:38 CEST TimestampMonotonic=395653938 VTNr=7 Seat=[unprintable] TTY= Display=:0 Remote=no RemoteUser= RemoteHost= Service=lightdm Scope=session-6.scope Leader=1701 Audit=6 Type=x11 Class=user Active=yes State=active IdleHint=no IdleSinceHint=0 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0 User=[unprintable] Name=cer cer@Minas-Anor:~>
Whatever the cause, the problem for the user is that I get prompted for the root password to hibernate my own laptop. This will not do.
Think: the user in the seat can power off the machine pushing the big red button on the case. Why ask for root's password to hibernate, if we can power it off anyway?
No, this is the system default and local user has not always access to the power button, e.g. on a multiseat box. The above is a bug, there is a dbus process left behind keeping a second session alive.
Worse, depending on the settings, the password prompt can appear _behind_ the logout dialog.
Please remove that password prompt or make it optional, so that we can remove it ourselves.
It is optional, feel free to configure it in policykit as you like. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.