Dear friends,

While it may sound obvious that disabling user switching will disable the User Switcher applet, this seems to be an issue, at least in Ubuntu 9.04.

This is because this applet is by default panel configuration, the only way to log out, shutdown, restart, etc. Thus, administrators who try to disable user switching end up having to figure out how to allow their users to logout/shutdown/etc..

This is from downstream Ubuntu:
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Binary package hint: gnome-session

Dear friends,

If the key /desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_user_switching is true, then the User Switcher applet seems to be not allowed, thus presenting the user with no obvious way to logout or shutdown, etc.

Perhaps it would be better that setting this key true would not disallow the User Switcher completely, but only remove the User Switching functionality from it (and from the desktop in general) and let it remain as a log out/shutdown/restart/etc. button.

Blessings.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-session 2.26.0svn20090408-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-session
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
 CancelOk
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Blessings.