On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, S. Hakim Hamdani wrote: > That would be appreciated, also from my side. I found it a bit strange > yesterday, when I reinstalled debian on a laptop, that I couldn?t login as > root graphically, and also that as a normal user I can?t shutdown or reboot > graphically or in text. Only via su.
This reminds me of a situation I faced over the summer. I was demonstrating something to a work-colleague and I was using X. So, I instructed my window manager to exit, which returned me to wdm's login screen. I then entered my username and password and changed the drop-down box to 'reboot' (I think). My colleague remarked on how I had to log out and then 'login' (or at least re-authenticate) to reboot the computer. He is from a different school of OS thought ;-) This has been nagging at me since. I thought the solution might be a package to manage permissions for users performing these operations, which could be driven from the menu-system. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
