Would generating a message that says "user x is requesting reboot priviledges" be appropriate in this case? That at least will give other users working remotely a chance to save their work. I can see this useful in a machine with multiple VNC/NX sessions at least in a corporate environment.
sri On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 09:43 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Dec 27, 2007 11:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, that's a good question and I'm not sure why not. I think most of > > us have a single person per computer but I can see where you have one > > person logged in via FUSA and one reboots while the other person has > > some spreadsheet or something he hasn't run yet. I'm not sure how one > > would handle that situation unless there is a quorum that each person > > will give their okay to reboot the machine. (which can be pretty > > annoying if it's your box) > > > > The plan for the new gdm is to require superuser privileges to reboot > when there are multiple sessions, but allow all users to reboot when > there is only one session. This will be configurable via PolicyKit. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Sriram Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
