session

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Sergey Manucharyan wrote:

>> i recall that there used to be another shutdown method that didn't 
>> use sudo but didn't work right either on some systems.  i thought it 
>> was removed though.  how old is your copy of the session manager?
>
> Yes, in previous session managers there were no "commented out" 
> entries. But even if I run xfce as root now I can't shutdown without 
> sudo. I'm recalling a mechanism with shutdown.allow file. Doesn't it 
> work now?
> I don't think it's convinient to enter a password for shutting down a 
> regular workstation. 

benny would know better, but i believe that sudo is the only way to go.

    -b