Why Restart & Shutdown Buttons on login screen

[Rick Stevens]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> "Rahul Tidke" wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>   I wonder about these buttons on gnome desktop; do we really need these
>> buttons on login screen? Reboot and shutdown allowed before login for any
>> user??
>>
>> Thank You.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Technical Support
>> Excelize Software Pvt. Ltd.
>> http://www.excelize.com
> 
> Having additional options there come in handy for some purposes. They do 
> not inhibit usage but give additional functionality.
> 
> The newer version of gdm even has a clock in it. I wondered what 
> usefulness for a clock when you only briefly are at login. I would not 
> fight to have it removed but wondered why it is there and moved on with 
> logging in.

Some systems sit at that display for long periods of time waiting for a
user to log in.  Not every desktop system is a one-user machine.
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