Re: Allowing User to Shut Down System

On 4 March 2012 00:09, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
>  I've somehow managed to set the system so that a user cannot shut down the
> system. Selecting the Xfce4 'Quit' button brings up an icon box with
> choices; selecting 'Logout' brings up a box asking for the user's passwword,
> then responds by saying that either the password is bad (which it's not) or
> users are not allowed to shut down the system. Haven't seen this behavior

Is this behaviour specific to xfce, the login manager or some other
"system" problem?
You could try a different windowmanger / desktop environment to see if
that has the same problem (fluxbox is light but I think will only let
you exit to the login manager; KDE will let you shutdown).

If you quit xfce to the login manager, does {xdm, gdm, kdm} let you shutdown?

I dont know if this is relevant, but might be worth just double-checking:

http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=21331

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31898

Regards,
Srdjan

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