Re: R: Shutdown/Reboot in Logout Menu?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Marco Ballini" <marcoballini tin it> writes:
> Maybe I have a similar (same?) question:
> I wonder why I can shutdown/reboot from GDM, as this is permitted only to
> root in Gnome and in the console mode.
> Is this an "error" of GDM? And why then can't I shutdown/reboot without root
> permission in Gnome and in console mode?
> Being able to shutdown/reboot from inside gnome (without using su) could
> making the procedure faster for a not-root user, so why not allow that?

It is allowed, on systems with consolehelper.

Havoc