Shutting down as user

[Rem P Roberti]

>> Hi everyone.  I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to
>> shutdown as user.  I get a "permission denied" error message.
>
> Whatever is shutting down the system would either need to be setuid
> (chmod u+s), or would need to use sudo (if you have the sudo port and
> your user is properly setup in sudoers to issue the shutdown command
> or whatever is running).
>
> Some details on which window manager or desktop environment you are
> running would help, along with whether or not you are running a
> display manager (GDM, KDM, XDM, etc).
>
> Josh
>

I'm using the KDE window manager, but don't see how this would effect 
anything, as I am not able to shut down as user from the console.

Rem