Re: shutdown prompt question

["Dave S" <dsmithye hotmail com>]

>From: Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
>To: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
>CC: "Dave S" <dsmithye@hotmail.com>, gnome-list@gnome.org
>Subject: Re: shutdown prompt question
>Date: 05 Feb 2000 12:06:46 -0500
>
>
>Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > "Dave S" <dsmithye@hotmail.com> writes:
> > > Is there another option somewhere else i'm missing?
> > >
> >
> > You need to fool around with PAM (assuming you're running Red Hat or
> > a distribution based on it because GNOME doesn't show the halt/reboot
> > otherwise I don't think).  Look in /etc/pam.d/reboot and
> > /etc/pam.d/shutdown for the config files, and /usr/doc/pam-0.68/html/
> > for documentation (if you don't have the docs you may need a newer pam
> > package).
> >
> > Looking at it quickly I don't actually see a way to disable the
> > passwords for console users [...]
>
>Simply comment out the line in /etc/pam.d/{shutdown,halt,reboot}
>
># auth    required      /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
>
>Regards,
>                                         Owen
>
>


Actually, commenting out the line doesn't work.
If you comment it out, when i select halt or reboot, i'm simply immediately 
kicked back to the login screen.
So what i did was un-comment the lines and change the "required" to 
"sufficient" and now that seems to work.
However, only one odditiy - when i shutdown as root, every shuts down fine 
and then i don't have to press my power off button - it automatically shuts 
it down.
When i shutdown (ie. logout->halt) as a regular user, all the processes 
shutdown okay, but then it just sits at the screen with the last message 
saying "Power down" and i must then do it manually.
Not a big deal, but is there something i can do to make it shut the power 
off for regular user hree too?

Thanks to everyone for their help so far! Learning lots!
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