On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:32:09PM +0200, Carlos Perell� Mar�n wrote: > El mi�, 04 de 06 de 2003 a las 20:00, Sven Luther escribi�: > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:02:47AM -0700, Pete Shinners wrote: > > > this is more of a gnome than debian question, but... > > > > > > how do i enable the "Shutdown" and "Reboot" buttons on the logout > > > dialog? it seems if i am logged in as root they are available, but i'd > > > like to shutdown when i'm normally logged in as well. > > > > Look at the archive of this list about a discussion i took part in about > > this selfsame subject. > > > > Hopefully it will be part of the gnome 2.4 target, but upto now, you > > cannot do it (but redhat somehow patched gnome 2.2 to support it). > > RedHat did not patched gnome 2.2 to support it, it's supported by > default, but the problem is that it does not see a way that the user > executes the "shutdown" command and then it does not show you the > option.
Are you sure of that ? > An easy (but really ugly and insecure) solution could be setuid the > shutdown command and link it at /bin or /usr/bin Nope, this does not work, at least when i tried it. shutdown is not satisfied by setuid privilege, it needs real root. > RedHat shows it because they use usermode and then they have a > /usr/bin/shutdown command that lets a normal user shutdown the computer. Maybe having a shutdown command that is a wrapper and calls sudo if needed could be a temporary solution. > > > i assume this is permissions on something, but i have been unable to > > > figure out what to change. i'm using debian unstable, but i'm sure > > > applies to all gnome2 platforms. > > > > Yep. > > Yes it applies to all gnome 1.4 and 2.x releases (perhaps all 1.x, but > I'm not sure). A workaround for gnome 1.4 was to have a shutdown button which called sudo gshutdown. This does not work anymore for 2.X though. Friendly, Sven Luther
