Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Keep in mind that my incremental power costs right now are $0.42/KWH. For monthly costs I use 24*365/12 = 730 hours/month. Wow, it is only $0.07 cents/kWh here (St Louis, Missouri, USA). The electric company wants to raise

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Keep in mind that my incremental power costs right now are $0.42/KWH. For monthly costs I use 24*365/12 = 730 hours/month. Wow, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 Apr 2010, at 14:25, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I have a machine that's a MythTV backend server. It sits quietly in our living room doing it's job, but it only does that roughly 4 hours per day so for 20 hours it wastes electricity. To make more use of the hardware my wife and son use it at

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 26 Apr 2010, at 14:25, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I have a machine that's a MythTV backend server. It sits quietly in our living room doing it's job, but it only does that roughly 4 hours per day so for 20 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Computers are a big portion of the bill around here and learning how to reduce power is high on my priorities for the next few months. I'm not sure how to handle a multi-use box like this. It's an 8-thread i7 processor.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Computers are a big portion of the bill around here and learning how to reduce power is high on my priorities for the next few months. I'm

[gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this, seems like a big security hole to me. Thanks. -- Your life is like

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:28 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there  are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 April 2010 13:28:50 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I don't want a non-root user to be able to shut the computer down -- I did it my mistake and its strange to have it there anyway -- least it should do is ask for the root password. Ah, I see. Well, that's more-or-less how SuSE used

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Jonathan
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this,

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
Jonathan winelauncher.jonat...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:40:02 +0200, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons: I did not look in gconf editor, and gdm at least, is compiled with the policykit use flag, so I am not sure where to go with this. Where would I

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:40:02 +0200, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons: I did not look in gconf editor, and gdm at least, is compiled with the policykit use flag, so I am