On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:06:39PM +0200, Thomas Morin wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading some recent threads on this list proposing solutions > to make it possible to shutdown (or reboot) their workstation directly > from the gnome session logout dialog. > > Some solutions proposed were based on some sudo wrapper (or PAM trick) > called by gnome-session at logout time. This setup has some drawbacks since > it gives the ability of shutting down the server to more people than > necessary for this feature. Moreover the gdm PostSession script might not > be ran. Making gdm do the shutdown itself at session logout avoid some > permission related problems. > > Here is the principle I propose : > - at logout, gnome-session proposes the reboot and halt options to the user > - if halt [or reboot] is chosen, a $HOME/.gdm-halt file [or .gdm-reboot] > file is created > - in the gdm PostSession script (which is run by gdm as root), the > existence of those files is tested > - if one of them exists and if the configuration allows, shutdown > (or reboot) of the workstation is triggered
Yep, if you look back to discussions about this on this list now one or two years old, i have been suggesting just this kind of stuff, altough at the time nobody appeared to care. Thanks for taking it one step further to realization. Friendly, Sven Luther
