2005/8/28, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Prabu Subroto wrote: > > > Dear my friends... > > > > I want each user of a desktop can shutdown the desktop after they are > > finished with their job on the desktop. > > > > Till now only root can do shutdown. > > > > How can I do to make the non-root user can shutdown and reboot a > > debian box. > > > > Thank you very much in advance. > > > > > Depends on how X is being started: "startx"? xdm? gdm? > > I believe kdm allows this behaviour by default; if you don't mind > switching, that might be the easiest fix. > > -- > Kent > --
you can set /etc/inittab so ctrl+alt+del shutdown instead of rebooting... look for a line like # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now and change to ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now this should do the job =)
