Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

[Peter Nuttall <p.s.nuttall@durham.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:38:35AM -0300, Gabriel wrote:
> Why I don't need to supply the root password to shutdown the computer 
> from gnome?...
> I've been searching for any option related but didn't find any.
> 
> 
> Any idea?
> 
Do you have gdm installed? When I used KDE, if you had kdm installed it
gave you the "logout/shutdown/reboot" menu, but if you didn't, it just
let you log out. 

Hope this helps

Pete

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> Gabriel Parrondo
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