Boruch Baum wrote:‎

> I don't yet have a working solution for 'switch-users',
> 'shutdown', or 'restart'.

Try these:
create /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/‎consolekit.pkla and with the content: 

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[restart]
Identity=unix-user:* 
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart 
ResultAny=yes 

[stop] 
Identity=unix-user:* 
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop 
ResultAny=yes

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