Re: Using Gshutdown with normal user

2003-09-11 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:41:19PM -0300, Angelo Marcos Rigo wrote: > Hi > > I would like to use the gshutdown utility from the system menu ondebian woody > but when i press it he says that only the root user can use it > > How can i use the gshutdown utility with a norm

Using Gshutdown with normal user

2003-09-11 Thread Angelo Marcos Rigo
Hi   I would like to use the gshutdown utility from the system menu ondebian woody but when i press it he says that only the root user can use it   How can i use the gshutdown utility with a normal user? without having to change to root user?   Thank´s in advance   Ângelo Rigo [EMAIL

Re: gshutdown and the trash can thingy in GNOME

2001-08-26 Thread Timeboy
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:14:47 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > ** 2.)Still in GNOME: in gshutdown, how do I make normal user accounts able > to shutdown/reboot without the need for su/sudoing at the console? I would > appreciate such as some of our computers here are turned on

gshutdown and the trash can thingy in GNOME

2001-08-26 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
would sure help if there would be a temporary folder to hold files to be temporarily deleted rather than erasing them from existence... 2.)Still in GNOME: in gshutdown, how do I make normal user accounts able to shutdown/reboot without the need for su/sudoing at the console? I would appreciate su

Re: gshutdown for non­root users? / gdm blank screen

2000-03-24 Thread Sven Esbjerg
t; at > the command line. Then I noticed that the gnome-utils package > includes "gshutdown". I can find no documentation, so was wondering > where I could configure it so that certain persons could call it > without being root. Any ideas would be most welcome! Well most

Re: gshutdown for non­root users? / gdm blank screen

2000-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
6Config: StandByTime 0 SuspendTime 20 OffTime 25 change values to suit your preference. also add: Option "power_saver" to the Device section. this makes the power save settings global to the X server instead of per session with xset, which i presume is what you are do

gshutdown for non­root users? / gdm blank screen

2000-03-23 Thread Dr. Michael R. Semple
m the root password. At first I installed sudo and set it up so that they could type "sudo shutdown -h now" at the command line. Then I noticed that the gnome-utils package includes "gshutdown". I can find no documentation, so was wondering where I could configure it so that

Re: gshutdown

1999-05-06 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Robert Kerr wrote: > I'm using gnome with enlightenment, and I'd like to add the gshutdown to > my panel. I've added it successfully, changed gshutdown to setuid root, You should know that this is a *huge* security hole. You're welcome to have

gshutdown

1999-05-06 Thread Robert Kerr
I'm using gnome with enlightenment, and I'd like to add the gshutdown to my panel. I've added it successfully, changed gshutdown to setuid root, and when I type gshutdown in a window I get the nice shutdown confirmation dialog. But, when I click on the gshutdown button, I get t