On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:41:01AM +0200, Harald Staub wrote: > Since I am not on the list debian-gtk-gnome, it is easier for me to send my > answer to you privately. Feel free to forward it.
Well, the debian-gtk-gnome is an open list, so there should not have been much problem in writing to it, anyway, i have done a reply to the list to of this mail, which will be enough, i think, altough the threading will be lost. > The following is not a solution, but works for me. During booting (this > should be somewhere else, of course), I do > > touch /var/lock/console/mickey Ok, if i am not wrong, this would eliminate the need to patch gnome-session, and is what redhat does. the /var/lock/console/<user> is just for guaranteing that the person shutting of the box is the user at the console, right ? That will not survive once XFree86 get multi-seat support, but we can worry about this when it happens. > This (besides adding suid for halt, shutdown and adding path for poweroff, > reboot; sorry, I may have forgotten something) gives user mickey the > shutdown options. Yep, altough i prefer the sudo/gksu wrapper myself. Friendly, Sven Luther
