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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] Regular users unable to issue shutdown and other stuff. (Was Reverse Search (Cntrl-R))
From:       Richard Atcheson <ratcheson () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2003-12-30 23:25:12
Message-ID: 200312301725.12683.ratcheson () earthlink ! net
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On Tuesday 30 December 2003 05:04 pm, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
> My primary Linux computer is a laptop, so I am always shutting it down.
> Having recently converted from Mandrake to SuSe 9.0 Pro. I found it
> annoying that my regular user account could not shutdown or restart the
> computer.  Having to log off and then shutdown from the display manager
> was getting very tiresome and opening a console to SU so I could
> shutdown was almost as bad.

Have you tried using the Control Center to set shutdown?   Control 
Center>System Admin>Login Manager  Then click Administrator Mode, root 
password, then go up to Sessions>Allow Shutdown and select how you want it to 
be.

Richard


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