James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 20:17, Christian Marillat wrote:
[...] >> 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. I really want to know why people are losing their time with that. I'm not talking about the portability code, but to the shutdown a la windows. For now with the current system we need 3 mouse clicks to shutdown your computer : 1) Click on log out 2) Click on the system gdm icon 3) Click OK A la window step 2 isn't needed. Well, what's wrong ? I can admit that with the old gdm version, this functionality was easy (need to go in the menu), but now... Another advice ? Christian
