In the olden days I worked with a PDP11/44 running Unix. I did not know a lot about Unix, but I was trusted to shut the system down by logging is as a special user "shutdown".
Now I am playing with my own linux systems, and I want to create a similar user to give my Wife an easy way to shut down the PC. I have created the user, and logging in as "shutdown" from a non-X console works well. However, now that xdm has been installed I have problems. I have made the user "shutdown"'s shell a script which calls the shutdown command. However xdm does not seem to run this script. Is the whole idea a bad one? If not, what am I doing wrong. Dave Whiteley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
