user reboot/shutdown (was Re: GUI login screen and non-root shutdown...)

From: Jonathan Dowland (jmtd_at_compsoc.dur.ac.uk)
Date: 11/07/03

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    Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:31:16 +0000
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    On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, S. Hakim Hamdani wrote:
     
    > That would be appreciated, also from my side. I found it a bit strange
    > yesterday, when I reinstalled debian on a laptop, that I couldn?t login as
    > root graphically, and also that as a normal user I can?t shutdown or reboot
    > graphically or in text. Only via su.

    This reminds me of a situation I faced over the summer. I was
    demonstrating something to a work-colleague and I was using X. So, I
    instructed my window manager to exit, which returned me to wdm's login
    screen. I then entered my username and password and changed the
    drop-down box to 'reboot' (I think).

    My colleague remarked on how I had to log out and then 'login' (or at
    least re-authenticate) to reboot the computer. He is from a different
    school of OS thought ;-)

    This has been nagging at me since. I thought the solution might be a
    package to manage permissions for users performing these operations,
    which could be driven from the menu-system. Does anyone have any
    thoughts about this? 

    -- 
Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/
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