Re: GUI login screen.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 07:37
Subject: Re: GUI login screen.
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:59:02PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > You can almost certainly reconfigure GDM to allow you to do this, but
> > it's still a REALLY silly idea. Using sudo is a good habit to get into,
> > and it WILL save your arse at some point.
>
> Well, gdm asks for the root password in order to shut down, I think; so
> it's not too silly. (You can probably configure it in other ways too.)
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
Thanks. I told you I would try your suggestions. Here is what happened:
Loged in as me at GUI login screen
Selected Control Panel from gnome start menu
under Debian selected Configure X Window (I told you gdm apparantly I was
wrong)
Input root password (now I'm root in X Windows)
Now the panel has only X(red)cancel useable the rest are grayed out as is
the panel Select cancel
Open a drawer that has logout button inside
All programs except Terminal are gone from both drawers.
Select terminal
Issue comand: sudo shutdown -r now
Password: root password
Failed
Password: My password
Failed with message that I would be reported to me.
Punched logout button on gnome start menu and went to GUI login
cntrl-alt-F1
Text mode login
? is it time to reinstall ?
Regards:
Hoyt
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