On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- > restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action > without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- > how do I fix this, seems like a big security hole to me. > > Thanks.
Build gnome with the policykit flag set. Then you need to give permission to the user to shutdown or restart. I do not know about GDM. Have you looked in gconf-editor for a setting?