"Restart" and "Shut Down" buttons during login don't work

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 00:09:39 UTC 2008


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i didn't find this in bugzilla but i can't believe someone wouldn't
> have noticed this already -- at the graphical login prompt, neither
> the "Restart" nor "Shut Down" buttons actually do those things.

See https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-February/msg00483.html
This has to do with authorization for that action, but no its definitely not 
very transparent why a normal user cannot shutdown the machine directly from the 
menu right after a new install..

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