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From: Prabu Subroto (prabusubroto_at_arcor.de)
Date: 08/28/05

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 06:21:47 +0000
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Dear my friends...

I want each user of a desktop can shutdown the desktop after they are
finished with their job on the desktop.

Till now only root can do shutdown.

How can I do to make the non-root user can shutdown and reboot a debian
box.

Thank you very much in advance.

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