Re: gdm and reboot

2004-12-04 Thread Jason Rennie
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:55:56PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote: > I have often wondered why exactly it defaults to requiring a password. > Requiring a user who has physical access to a computer root privileges > to shut it down seems fundamentally flawed to me--they could easily shut > it down by

Re: gdm and reboot

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Spang
Sean O'Dubhghaill wrote: On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 8:02 pm, Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/01/2004 02:10 PM, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Isn't there an option on GDM to enable normal users to shutdown and reboot the machine? It always requires the root password to do it... -- Fred Yes. Thi

Re: gdm and reboot

2004-12-01 Thread Sean O'Dubhghaill
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 8:02 pm, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 12/01/2004 02:10 PM, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > > Isn't there an option on GDM to enable normal users to shutdown > > and reboot the machine? > > It always requires the root password to do it... > > -- Fred > > Yes. Thi

Re: gdm and reboot

2004-12-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/01/2004 02:10 PM, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Isn't there an option on GDM to enable normal users to shutdown and reboot the machine? It always requires the root password to do it... -- Fred Yes. This is from my /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (using Sarge): # The Actions menu (former