## Submitted by Christopher Head Assigned to **Xfce Bug Triage** **[Link to original bug (#12054)](https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12054)** ## Description I always used sudo to run xfsm-shutdown-helper for shutdown and restart. In 4.12, this stopped working. The README claims this is still a supported configuration, yet all the sudo code seems to have been ripped out, and now it *only* uses pkexec, which is not very helpful for those of us who don’t use PolicyKit—there’s still a disable-polkit/enable-polkit option to the configure script, so I assume PolicyKit support is still meant to be optional, yet this particular change rather breaks that view. Version: 4.12.0