Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question: I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing around, just looking and looking all over in the menus, I ran across the Login Manager. Its kinda hidden in Dolphin's menus. In any case, in the Login Manager, I went to the "Sessions" tab. The very first setting is called "Allow Shutdown" and you have a subsetting for the Console and Remote. The setting for Console said "Nobody"; I simply changed it to "Everybody". I logged out and logged back in, and then tried to log out again. To my delight, I now had the options to halt/reboot/logout. Success!
Now I could be wrong about this; I could have changed a different setting somewhere else, but I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT. (In other words, I don't know why this setting change accomplished what I was after). The point is that it worked and I'm finished. Ugh! -Lawrence Winstead 10/15/2002 7:51:53 AM, "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:07 am, you wrote: > ><snip> > >> > Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at >> > install (I think it was "Medium"). >> > >> > So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? >> >> No I do not think that would help. You have to 'pass' a test to get access >> to the command. If you have medium security I do not understand why your >> system should behave differently to mine (also medium) My ordinary users >> can use shutdown without a problem. >> >> Have you ever had high security?, or did you upgrade instead of install? >> >> It might be worth taking a look at /etc/security/console.apps I have a >> zero byte file in there called shutdown. It may be that at higher security >> levels that file does something. >> >> You could also try editing /etc/pam.d/shutdown like this :- >> #%PAM-1.0 >> auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so >> auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so >> auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth >> #account required /lib/security/pam_permit.so >> >> I think you will then be prompted for a password before shutdown >> >> derek > >Guys, I don't about 9.0, or which versions (RC releases, boxed set, d/l >versions) you're using, but I had this same trouble with 8.2. Using the d/l 3 >CD version, any normal user on my system could not shut it down. As soon as I >purchased the boxed set (7 CD Powerpack), my normal users could once again >shut down. I don't know if its relevant here or not, but its just a thought... > >See ya... > >-- > /\ > Dark< >Lord > \/ > >
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