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Re: Shutting down as a user



On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:16:06AM -0000, vdemart@supereva.it wrote:
> 
> Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary user and find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order to shutdown the PC.
> Is there a way to power my PC off as a user?

if you use wdm as graphical login you can configure it to allow every
console user to shut down.

tha man page says something abaout /etc/shutdown.allow but i haven't got it
to work by now.

yours martin
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