[PLUG] Allowing user shutdowns

[Anthony Schlemmer]

KDM has a menu option for this, at lease under SuSE. I don't know if 
it's standard in all installations of KDM or not since SuSE does a bit 
of customization of KDE. At I'm like a windows user now and use KDM to 
shutdown my system instead.

Tony

On Sunday 22 September 2002 14:56 pm, 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.
>
>
> Sean
>
> On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 13:03, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >   I know that only root can issue the 'shutdown' command, but what
> > is the accepted procedure when the installation is on a laptop and
> > you don't want to give the user root priviledges? I can think of
> > only two scenarios:
> >
> >   1) Make a different root password for that box and hope that
> > accidents are few and far between; or,
> >
> >   2) Write a script, called perhaps 'done', that su's to root, uses
> > expect to supply the root password, then issues the 'shutdown -h
> > now' command.
> >
> >   The second is cleaner and safer, but I've never done any expect
> > programming and I don't know if it can be used to supply the root
> > password in a situation as I've described.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
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