On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 08:50 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 3/28/07, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree that the shutdown option should not be removed from GDM. While > it's possible to shut a machine down from a remote machine using ssh, > which I do here once in awhile, it doesn't work for single computer > households or when users don't know to ask someone to do this for > them. It's not even friendly to remove shutdown from GDM. What if I'm > not home to do it? That just doesn't work. > > Assuming we have removed shutdown from the desktop environment then > the two ideas that do work in my mind are: > > 1) At least warn users requesting shutdown from GDM that other users > are logged on. I think most reasonable people would then walk around > the house or small office to find out who they are and ask if it's OK > to shutdown. It's not hard to learn to use the 'users' command and go > ask if it's OK with them to shutdown. > > 2) Make the actual shutdown operation password protected. I'd prefer > to have a 'shutdown' group so that no one needs the root password but > at least my wife and I could prohibit (but not stop) my son from > rebooting. The following bug has some information in it that may be useful to you: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372738 I really need to get my head back into it and follow up on it... The bottom line is that newer versions of GDM can restrict shutdown privileges. I believe my patch also restricts the logout dialog, but it's not a good solution, as Brian points out in a comment. Maybe you can even flesh out the bug a bit with your requirements, so it will be taken into consideration when it's revisited, eventually. -- Hans Petter _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
