Bug#590617: wdm: Why one has to login to do HALT !! Please make LINUX SIMPLE and HUMAN !

[yellow <yellowprotoss@gmail.com>]

Package: wdm
Version: 1.28-4
Severity: important

Dear Sir,

It is of no senses to make linux asking a login and password to halt it.

Please a fix asap !
Thank you
Best regards
Y.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wdm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.33     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfontconfig1                2.8.0-2.1  generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpam-modules                1.1.1-3    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime                1.1.1-3    Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.1-3    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.94-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libwraster3                   0.92.0-8.2 Shared libraries of Window Maker r
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                       1:1.0.5-2  X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6                     1:1.0.3-2  X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.2-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                       2.1.14-2   FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1                  2:1.1-3    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxmu6                       2:1.0.5-1  X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  psmisc                        22.11-1    utilities that use the proc file s
ii  x11-apps                      7.5+5      X applications
ii  x11-common                    1:7.5+6    X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii  x11-utils                     7.5+4      X11 utilities
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.5+1+b1   X server utilities

wdm recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wdm suggests:
ii  xfonts-base                   1:1.0.1    standard fonts for X

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config'

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: wdm
  wdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/wdm