Re:

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Prabu Subroto wrote:

> Dear my friends...
>
> I want each user of a desktop can shutdown the desktop after they are 
> finished with their job on the desktop.
>
> Till now only root can do shutdown.
>
> How can I do to make the non-root user can shutdown and reboot a
> debian  box.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
>
Depends on how X is being started: "startx"? xdm? gdm?

I believe kdm allows this behaviour by default; if you don't mind
switching, that might be the easiest fix.

-- 
Kent