[PLUG] Allowing user shutdowns

[Rich Shepard]

On 22 Sep 2002, Sean Whitney wrote:

> Assuming that you are using Xwinders on the laptop, gdm can be
> configured to allow any user sitting in front of the login screen to
> execute a shutdown.  I'm not sure about xdm or kdm.

  Thanks, Sean. On the workstation her .bashrc calls startx; I'm not fond of
going directly to run level 5. But, I may consider thia on the laptop. Or
just give her a script that runs sudo to shutdown the system. That'll
probably be the best approach.

Rich