Re: Allowing User to Shut Down System

On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:23:52 +0000
John Crowhurst <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

It used to be, at least. The last couple of times I have not needed to
put it in when I have had Slim log me in.
Speaking of which: Slim uses the .xinitrc to set up the choices between
which window managers/DEs you can log into. I usually just create one
with the executable line - openbox-session or startxfce4.

All the best,
M