On dim., 2010-03-07 at 06:33 +0000, Michaël Ball wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 20:50 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On sam., 2010-03-06 at 16:50 +0000, Michaël Ball wrote: > > > > And has the terminal from where you run it all the capabilities do > > > > shutdown? (can talk to dbus, has policykit permissions etc.?) > > > > > > I've set up the policykit permissions so that my username can issue a > > > shutdown/reboot. Am I correct in thinking that this is all that is > > > necessary to make sure a command issued by me from the console will have > > > the correct permission to shutdown? > > > > I think a good way to test would be to run xfce4-session-logout without > > any arg, and chose “halt” there. > > I have tried this, and it shuts down correctly. So would it still be a > permissions issue? > Hmhm, I'm not sure. I don't think so, but it could still be an environment problem in the shell. Afair, xfce4-session sends a dbus message to hal to ask for shutdown, so you might want to monitor both dbus (dbus-monitor) and hal (lshal -m) and see what happen in both cases (doing so from another box with ssh might be a good idea).
Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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