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Re: gdm in Gnome 2.4 shutdown even harder



On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:49, Mpiktas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today after almost 4 weeks I'm online again. First thing I did was upgrading  
> my Sid box. Gnome 2.4 feels great. Thanx for the great work. Everything's  
> perfect except the shutdown. I can live with that that in order to shutdown I  
> need 2 steps. Logout from gnome, choose shutdown from gdm system menu. But now  
> after I choose shutdown gdm asks me for a root password. I know it, but my  
> wife will know it only over my dead body:) Yet she sometimes need to shutdown  
> the computer. Security is good. But let's face it this is ridiculous. If I use  
> gnome I use computer as desktop, not a server. So I shutdown it for the night.  
> And such a simple operation has become even harder. Or I have misconfigured  
> something? I let dpkg overwrite my old gdm config file.Thanx for any  
> helpMpiktas 

In gdmsetup, in the "Security" tab, uncheck the "Secure System Menu"
option.

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