I thought it was a permissions issue. If halt and reboot are available
through KDE to a normal user, that means a user would be able to reboot
any system with KDE on it.
Tom Berger wrote:
>
> On Aug 21 2001, 22:21 +0000, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > Start KDE with startx as normal user. Press 'Exit" (menu or applet).
> > Neither Halt nor Reboot work - I exit KDE (and X session) but no Halt or
> > Reboot.
> >
> > BTW Halt is not really useful. I would expect Poweroff here, at least
> > together with Halt (but what do you do with Halt on Intel PC? there is
> > no OBP to exit into :-)
> ---tom:---
>
> Same here. 'Halt' is suggested to do a 'poweroff' but like Pixel said,
> this doesn't work for the current kernel.
>
> tom
>
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