Comment 37 for bug 1178373

(In reply to Guido Berhoerster from comment #15)
> (In reply to Eric Koegel from comment #14)
> > Created attachment 5498 [details]
> > Suspend/hibernate upower 0.99 (no logind)
> >
> > Since everyone else is doing the logind piece, I wrote a small patch so
> > xfce4-session will work with upower 0.99 but without logind.
>
> Although I think it would be a good thing not to rely on logind, please do
> not extend this crude and ugly sudo hack that BSD and Solaris users have to
> put up with, but replace xfsm-shutdown-helper with a small DBus service and
> use PolicyKit to authorize access to shutdown/suspend methods.
> xfsm-shutdown-helper should just go away, PolicyKit is nowadays available
> even on the BSDs and Solaris.

Indeed, I can look into doing that. I didn't know how long it would take to get a new project accepted by distros, especially something running as root. In the meantime, extending shutdown-helper will work until I (or someone) makes a daemon for that.