I'd rather see them removed. I've seen too many Windows users pick the
wrong option from their shutdown menus to trust them with the same
choice exiting Linux. For example: What if the company doesn't want
its users shutting down the systems? Maybe they have an automated
update or backup routine that runs after normal work hours. You don't
want to new guy in accounting shutting off his system because that was
his habit at his last job.
Tom Berger wrote:
>
> On Aug 21 2001, 22:59 +0000, Digital Wokan wrote:
> > 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:---
>
> They *are* available to every user via KDM's 'shutdown' menu (and via
> CTRL-Alt-Del anyway). This is a bug: if you choose one of the system
> options from logoff the machine goes to runlevel 3. If rl 5 is the
> default runlevel, it goes to rl 5 and displays the KDM screen again
> (from which you can shutdown or reboot the machine), if 3 is the default
> rl, it drops you to the console but doesn't shutdown or reboot the
> machine either.
> So options are: remove these non-working options, or make them work :-)
>
> tom
>
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