I've just installed Debian/Stretch on a new (to me) laptop and upgraded it to 
Testing.  When I close the lid it doesn't suspend, instead it gives the 
message "authentication is required for suspending the system while other 
users are logged in" (presumably due to "ssh user@localhost" but also happens 
when I've logged out of the ssh session).

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/492950-how-get-rid-of-quot-authentication-is-required-for-suspending-the-system-while-other-users-are-logged-in

Above is one Google hit about this, it references a program 
set_polkit_default_privs which doesn't seem to exist on Debian.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/543921/authentication-required-before-suspend

The above page recommends changing /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/
org.freedesktop.login1.policy which doesn't work for me.

Any suggestions on what to do?

One suggestion that I haven't yet tried is to change XDM programs.  I'm happy 
with sddm and it should work.  Ideally I would be able to discover enough 
about this to file an adequate bug report against sddm.
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