Shutting down as user

[Joe Holden]

Rem P Roberti wrote:

> That is very true, and I understand why this is by design, but in this 
> case the ONLY user of the machine is me.  It really is no big deal, but 
> I am trying to understand just what is going on here.  As I said, on my 
> desktop I am able to shut down as user, and can't remember how I set it 
> up so that occurs.  Back to the handbook!

Do you have (as was mentioned) the shutdown script setuid or something?