[RULE] User-Shutdown from the iceWM-GUI or with a script/command

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 24 June 2003 10:11 am, Ingo Lantschner wrote:
> I am looking for a posibility, to allow a regular user to shutdown a
> workstation.
>
> a. shutdown -h is only for root
> b. pressing ctrl+alt+del is somehow strange and even does reboot, so
> users must find the right moment to power the machine off - nothing I
> want a newbee-user to do.
>
> Does anyone know a better solution? What about giving the right to
> shutdown the system to normal users?

Red Hat's default setup should allow any user who is sitting at the 
terminal to shutdown. So, normal users who are at the console should be 
able to shutdown, while a normal user logged in via ssh can not.

If that isn't the case, something is wrong, please let me know.

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