[H-GEN] rebooting system

[Stuart Longland]

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Richard wrote:

| I'm using Red Hat 9 and the remote logon screen doesn't show the
shutdown or
| reboot commands. Is there a way to make it do this? Or do I have to log in
| as root and type 'shutdown -r now' to do it manually?

I think somewhere in the GDM configuration (have a look in the System
settings for Login Screen I think) there is an option to allow remote
users to shut down.  I'm not completely sure there, I mainly use KDM myself.
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