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Re: GUI login screen.



On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 13:52 GMT, Hoyt Bailey penned:
> On a network I can understand why a normal used cannot shutdown the
> system, but a single user should be able to shutdown, reboot, etc,
> without becoming root.  This shouldnt be a big problem.

In fact, I think it's critical for a machine to which a user has
physical access.  If the user wants to reboot the machine, no matter how
ill-advisedly, I'd rather they use the software version than the power
button.


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