System policy

[MattS]

Whenever I try to shut down it always says "system policy prevents users from shutting down while other users are logged on" or something like that. How can I get it to stop coming up with this (BTW, there's only one user in my system, so how does that work).
Or is there any way that an admin (which I am, being the first and only user that was created) could not have to type in their password for anything but login and sudo.

[elija]

I don't know about the first point, but I'll have a go at the second.

The first user you create is not an administrator (or root user). It is merely a normal user that is automatically added to the sudoers file, thus enabling the use of sudo for administrative tasks.

Everything that asks for your password requires elevated privileges normally because it will be doing something to a directory that is not your home. Usually this will be by using sudo under the hood so you are in effect only being asked your password for login and sudo.

[MattS]

I don't know about the first point, but I'll have a go at the second.

The first user you create is not an administrator (or root user). It is merely a normal user that is automatically added to the sudoers file

Does that mean that if I create a second user (admin), then delete my old one it won't ask me. Also, would I be able to copy my settings onto my new account?