[plug] Mandrake 10 shutdown question

[Chris Griffin]

Mark,

I finally managed time to get bacj to this tonight and you were
correct, I found the setting, changed it and now all is well, you
learn something new evere day.
Many thanks for everyones help.

Kind regards,
Chris Griffin

On 21 Jul 2004 16:09:25 +0800, Mark O'Shea <mark at musicalstoat.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 15:46, Chris Griffin wrote:
> > Yup, same story.
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:29:53 +0800, Russ Powers <russ at powerstech.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 02:03 pm, Chris Griffin wrote:
> > > > That's what I have tried. But this only gets me back to the logon
> > > > screen where the shutdown and reboot options are greyed out. I
> > > > actually want to do a shutdown.
> > >
> > > Have you done it as root?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know if Mandrake has any custom frontends for doing this but
> normally kde can be made to change this behaviour by using the control
> center, in the system settings->Login manager-> sessions -> allow
> shutdowns -> console.  You need to be logged on as root to make the
> changes.
> 
> This is assuming you are using kdm as the desktop manager.
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Mark O'Shea
> 
> 
> 
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