Why Restart & Shutdown Buttons on login screen

[Tim]

Rahul Tidke:
>>   I wonder about these buttons on gnome desktop; do we really need these
>> buttons on login screen? Reboot and shutdown allowed before login for any
>> user??

It's handy to be able to shut down without having to log on.  I have
rebooted instead of shutting down, occasionally.  And then there's
computers that were left running for the next person, and won't be
needed anymore.

Jim Cornette 
> The newer version of gdm even has a clock in it. I wondered what 
> usefulness for a clock when you only briefly are at login.

How new's "new"?  It's been there for years...  

At least one handy thing about it is that it's a simple thing to look at
that shows that the computer hasn't crashed.

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