On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:51:04PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > From kdm any user can reboot/shutdown (at least in my machine) Is this > an anomaly? No, KDM and GDM both run as root and allow a console user to reboot or shut down the machine. I think both allow it by default but can be configured to require a root password. It's a useful thing for a workstation. -- Michael Heironimus