[gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread Michael Kjorling
I run Xfce 4.2.3.2 and want to be able to shut down my system from within X. At the moment I have to log in as root and then issue a shutdown command, but Xfce is supposed to support doing this through the GUI. Looking around turned up the Xfce documentation and specifically

Re: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread brettholcomb
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Re: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread John Jolet
was %wheel (root) shutdowncommand what you put was let wheel group run the shutdown command as vukyou want to replace vuk with root. From: Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/04 Wed AM 08:26:16 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] System shutdown

Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 4, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2006-01-04 08:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what you put was let wheel group run the shutdown command as vukyou want to replace vuk with root. There we go, thank you! For the benefit of the archives, this is what I got in the

Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 2006-01-04 11:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can now shut down and reboot from within the GUI, and it doesn't seem to have opened any obvious other security holes. well, except ANY user in your wheel group can shut down your box.not saying that's a bad thing, but you need to