Re: Re:

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 01:27 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> 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.

If it's gdm, the availablility of this feature is controlled by options
in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf: SystemMenu and SecureSystemMenu

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