On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:52:08PM +0200, Carlos Perell� Mar�n wrote: > El mi�, 04 de 06 de 2003 a las 20:39, Sven Luther escribi�: > > 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 ? > > It was last time I looked at it (gnome 1.4) and the official code has > not change lot since then... > > Well, It's not the shutdown command (sorry) the commands it use are > "poweroff", "halt" and "reboot"
Ok, i will try it. > > > 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. > > Try with the other commands. Ok, altough i was launching the setuid shutdown command from the console, and it was not happy. I somehow doubt that poweroff, halt or reboot will behave any differently, after all, they are only wrappers around shutdown or something like that. > > > 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. > > Yes, it could be a temporary solution but it seems to be as ugly as the > other option I wrote before.. (more secure, but ugly). > > > > > > 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. > > You should be able to do it also with the --with-reboot-command and > --with-halt-command options at compile time, but perhaps you should pass > "sudo, gshutdown" instead of "sudo gshutdown" But this does not work with 2.x, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther
