RE: Re[4]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-16 Thread Nick Emans
Roman Korcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hey, > >> 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 me

Re[4]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-16 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, > 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 kin

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Thread Flux
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

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:07 am, you wrote: > > 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 acces

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 12:25 pm, Roman Korcek wrote: > Hey Derek, > > >> I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a > >> regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in > >> /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown > >> -r now

Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Derek, >> I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a >> regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in >> /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown >> -r now but bash said only root can do that. Shutdown has r-x >> permiss

Re: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Thread Derek Jennings
Shutdown is under the control of PAM (Permissions access module?) If you look at /usr/bin/shutdown you will see it is in fact a symlink to an application called 'consolehelper' Consolehelper is a wrapper which looks at the name of the symlink it was called from (in this case shutdown) and loo

Re: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi all, > I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the > options to logout, halt, and reboot don't show up when I logout of > KDE in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I previously had RedHat Linux 7.3 > installed, and the options were there. What am I missing? Is > there a security level

Re: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-14 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 11:55 am, Flux did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the options to that is indeed the reason if i recall correctly. - -- "The box said 'Requires Windows

[newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-14 Thread Flux
I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the options to logout, halt, and reboot don't show up when I logout of KDE in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I previously had RedHat Linux 7.3 installed, and the options were there. What am I missing? Is there a security level that will trigge