User Reboot Gnome from Desktop Launcher?

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In OpenSuse 11.2 is there anyway I can get a desktop icon/launcher to do a /sbin/reboot, which would bypass the login screen coming up before powering off and on again without having to give the user the root password?
Thanks

Bob

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bobhicks wrote:
> In OpenSuse 11.2 is there anyway I can get a desktop icon/launcher to do
> a /sbin/reboot, which would bypass the login screen coming up before
> powering off and on again without having to give the user the root
> password?

is it not possible to just right click on the desktop, choose shutdown
(or logout, i don’t remember what it says in gnome) then choose reboot…

there should be no login screen popup!

and, /sbin/reboot won’t turn the power off and then reconnect power
and boot…and neither will the clicking i describe above…

and, there should be NO root password involved in the reboot!!

are you running Gnome as root?

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On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:36:01 GMT, bobhicks
<bobhicks@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>In OpenSuse 11.2 is there anyway I can get a desktop icon/launcher to do
>a /sbin/reboot, which would bypass the login screen coming up before
>powering off and on again without having to give the user the root
>password?
>Thanks
>
>Bob

Using Yast->system->/etc/sysconfig editor
open Desktop->display manager->displaymanager_shutdown and set it to all.

this requires a reboot to take effect.