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Logout vs. shutdown

Logout vs. shutdown

Posted Oct 8, 2008 1:14 UTC (Wed) by dfsmith (guest, #20302)
In reply to: Logout vs. shutdown by alankila
Parent article: Ubuntu 8.10 Beta released

How does it protect you that shutting it down from desktop has been made harder?
Because now the Shutdown will be more than 2 pixels away from Logout. (This machine must not be shutdown EXCEPT when maintenance needs to do something like remove AC power—and they can do than from GDM and power it back up again afterwards without having a login account.)


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