Re: can't shut down

From: Michael Rauch (mira.list_at_gmx.net)
Date: 01/27/04

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    Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:20:23 +0100
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    Kevin C. Smith wrote:
    > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:25:33AM -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote:
    >
    >>I'm a newby to debian linux and feeling pretty dumb. I have managed to partition my hard drive and install Debian but I can't figure out how to get into root in order to shut down my machine. If I am in Gnome how do I close Debian-linux down. If someone would walk me through from Gnome
    >>I would be thankful. At the present time I am shuting down with th off button on the front of my machine.
    >> Doug
    >
    >
    > Find "log out", or maybe it's "log off", from one of the gnome menus.
    > Gnome 2.4 it's on the top by default under "ACIONS".
    >
    > Gnome then logs out to GDM. Choose shutdown. You will need to know the
    > root password in Debian to shutdown the machine. This a Debian default
    > meant to improve security.
    >
    > Kevin

    i don't consider it a security problem on my workstations to allow
    non-root users to shutdown from the GDM login screen (wouldn't allow it
    on a server machine ... but why should there be a gnome/kde/.. running
    anyway?).

    to change the default behaviour, you have to edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. the
    relevant lines are:

    SystemMenu=true
    SecureSystemMenu=false

    after editing the file, login as root (CTRL+ALT+F1 to change to a
    terminal) and restart GDM:

    /etc/init.d/gdm restart

    hth
    #!mike 

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