Re: Re:

From: Oliver Elphick (olly_at_lfix.co.uk)
Date: 08/28/05

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    To: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
    Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 07:38:27 +0100
    
    

    On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 01:27 -0500, Kent West wrote:
    > 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.

    If it's gdm, the availablility of this feature is controlled by options
    in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf: SystemMenu and SecureSystemMenu

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