gshutdown

[Herman Roozenbeek <hermanr mailroom com>]

A short question from yet another newbie...

When I try to run the "Shutdown or reboot" option from the Gnome->Settings
menu, I am told that I need to be root to do this.

Of course I can log out and reboot/halt from gdm, but why do this if I could do
this from Gnome itself?

I've tried to change the permissions of gshutdown (chmod +s gshutdown and chown
root.users gshutdown), but to no avail. A quick look at the source code didn't
learn me much, either. And, finally, I have a /etc/shutdown.allow file, but I
don't think gshutdown will use it.

So... what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Herman Roozenbeek, The Hague (NL)
E-Mail: Herman Roozenbeek <hermanr@mailroom.com>
Date: 28-Oct-99, 00:20:58