On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:51:04PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> From kdm any user can reboot/shutdown (at least in my machine) Is this 
> an anomaly?

No, KDM and GDM both run as root and allow a console user to reboot or
shut down the machine. I think both allow it by default but can be
configured to require a root password. It's a useful thing for a
workstation.

-- 
Michael Heironimus


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