(Ogra: see the LTSP/Edubuntu question further down; Keybuk: see the 'shutdown' question).
Jouni: There two separate issues here: (a) displaying the [Shutdown] button (b) allowing the shutdown to occur By default, the current user [physically] logged into the console is allowed to shutdown the machine---this is the person that is sitting in front of the screen and keyboard. If you SSH in as another user, you should find that the shutdown/suspend/hibernate will be prevented and permission denied. The Edubuntu and LTSP teams specialise are particularly focused on the type of large-deployments you're working with. Ogra: can you confirm the how the LTSP setup overrides these types of actions in thick-client mode? Jouni: if you're wondering what happens, gnome-power-manager will eventually call: /usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-power-shutdown which in turn calls '/sbin/shutdown'. Scott: I assume that the upstart implementation of 'shutdown' does only execute with intent if run by capability == root? I was hoping that there might be an easy PAM group called for the authorisation. -- Only allow a smaller selection of users to perform privileged shutdown/suspend/hibernate https://launchpad.net/bugs/81700 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
