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From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 08/28/05

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    Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:27:20 -0500
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    Prabu Subroto wrote:

    > 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.
    >
    >
    Depends on how X is being started: "startx"? xdm? gdm?

    I believe kdm allows this behaviour by default; if you don't mind
    switching, that might be the easiest fix.

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