You can setup confirmation or have it not confirm. If it is in the login screen without yet logging in, then anyone can shutdown. Guess this is ala Windows NT/2K as this is also how they do it.
Art -----Original Message----- From: Ted Spradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Newbie]XDM gui login not working Art Fore wrote: > > That is correct. Have not used XDM as login manager before. How do you > shutdown? In KDM, when you logout, you get a new loging screen with a > shutdown button where you can shutdown or restart. Well, I use "sudo shutdown now", with a -h to halt or a -r to reboot. You have to be logged in to do that. KDM puts up a shutdown button on the login screen? Does it require any authentication, or can anyone who can pull out the power cord click on the button and shut down the system? Stupid question ;-) I recently created an account named "shutdown", password "shutdown", uid 0, gid 0, and login shell "#!/bin/sh\nshutdown -h now" to accomplish something similar. Worked OK from a text console but was a bit quirky from xdm. Not for my own use, mind you, but for my son's teacher and classmates. The shutdown button on the login screen is probably a good idea for people who insist on powering off their computers, but I hope it requires some positive confirmation so it doesn't happen by accident. Oh, BTW, what was your *original* problem? -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
