On Thursday 18 January 2007 6:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Rob, if you use gnome I can't help, but in kde you can control these things > easily from kcontrol, by a combination of settings in session manager and > login manager. One gives you the option to offer shutdown when logging > out, and the other allows you to set who is allowed to shutdown. > Rob: Have you looked at /etc/pam.d/poweroff and /etc/pam.d/reboot ??? It seems to me that simply commenting out "account required" should do the trick. That still leaves "root." Then again, I may be barking up the wrong tree, so I'd check with someone who knows for sure before trying what I'm suggesting... :-) That being said, there ought to be an easier way to do this sort of thing *Independently* of which window manager you choose. John