On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 20:17, Christian Marillat wrote: > James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:38, John R Lenton wrote: > >> WRT the thread on gnome's logout dialog showing reboot etc, it seems > >> what is needed is e.g. /etc/pam.d/reboot. > >> > >> Ref: > >> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/psyche-list/2003-April/msg00272.html > > > > See: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114432 > > > > for a possible solution (patch is available in the report). > > Not really insteresting if you need to type the root password in gksu.
That is but one solution. You can add whatever authentication mechanism you want into the shutdown and reboot scripts. They could read a file for allowed users, do a pam check, use sudo, whatever. The idea is to allow more than just redhat users the chance to have shutdown and reboot options. The patch lets system admins customize it, or distributions to develop a policy for it. All that said, I think using gksu is an interesting fallback mechanism-- eg try an automatic authentication, but if that doesn't work, use gksu. Jamie -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG/PGP ID: 26384A3A Fingerprint: D9FF DF4A 2D46 A353 A289 E8F5 AA75 DCBE 2638 4A3A
