Sunday, April 28, 2019

Re: [6.5] Xfce: problem with shutdown menu

Hi Tom,

Tom Smyth wrote on Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 10:09:54PM +0100:

> I would imagine it is because you dont have shutdown privilege as the
> user in Xfce,
>
> check your doas config ...
>
> BTW i was just lazy and opened a privleged shell and ran halt -p

i wouldn't call that "lazy" but rather "best practice".

Configuring a GUI to do privileged operations would seem pointless
to me: both complicated and risky.

Yours,
Ingo

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