[X4U] "Shutdown" when other Users are active won't work

[Zane H. Healy]

>Sometimes I want to shut down the computer, and don't want to go to 
>the trouble of logging into my wife's account, logging her out, 
>re-logging into my own account, and then shutting down.
>
>OSX provides a mechanism--supposedly--for this:  if I select Shut 
>Down from the Apple menu, it warns me that the other user is logged 
>in, and that I need to enter an administrator's name and password, 
>and that all data will be lost in any opened & unsaved documents.  I 
>do this....and nothing happens.  I've waited many minutes before, 
>even left my computer for a while, and when I return...nothing.
>
>Is anyone ELSE able to make this work?

I used to have problems making this work, it used to kill all my 
stuff of, but not touch wife's login.  These days it seems to be 
working just fine (assuming I remember to hit restart, rather than 
cancel :^)

		Zane

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