gshutdown for nonroot users? / gdm blank screen
Hello,
I've just returned to Debian (potato) after a short (6 month)
excursion into RedHat 6.1. I work for SAP (of R/3 fame) which has
released R/3 for Linux, but only on RedHat. Foolishly, I thought I
should make the transition in order to install a test system at home.
I must say that I don't agree with the magazine reviews which
generally seem to prefer the commercial distributions to Debian
GNU/Linux... Thanks to all of you who work so hard to produce such a
great distribution.
Anyway, to my questions: I wanted to allow my family to shutdown the
computer without giving them the root password. At first I installed
sudo and set it up so that they could type "sudo shutdown -h now" at
the command line. Then I noticed that the gnome-utils package
includes "gshutdown". I can find no documentation, so was wondering
where I could configure it so that certain persons could call it
without being root. Any ideas would be most welcome!
My second question concerns gdm. I've set things up within Gnome so
that the screen turns on a screensaver after 10 minutes and then
enters powersaving mode after another 20. The only problem is that
the users generally log out before leaving the computer. In this
state, with the gdm login dialogue showing, the screen does not enter
powersave mode. Is there any way to enable shutting down the console
monitor?
Kind regards,
Mike
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Dr. Michael R. Semple
J. Spyriweg 15, CH-2543 Lengnau BE, Switzerland
Email: semple@datacomm.ch, Phone: +41-(0)32-653 34 10
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