Re: Allowing User to Shut Down System

On 04/03/2012 15:17, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
> On 4 March 2012 15:06, Rich Shepard<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> come up upon login, but the immediate issue is why, after creating .xinitrc
>> for her account, she can no longer shut down the system when she's finished.
>>
>>   Have not before seen this behavior with Xfce, and I've used that since
>> 1997.
> I thought .xinitrc is something that only ancient systems needed :-P
> I think I've only ever seen this file on machines running twm nearly
> 10 years ago.
>
> In any case, I'd review what's in .xinitrc and see how much of it is necessary.
> You could move that file somewhere else and see if xfce4 still has trouble.
.xinitrc tells X what display manager you are using (KDE, xfce4, etc) 
and overrides the default.

Run visudo and add:
%users ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper

That may be the solution you are looking for.

Best,

John