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Re: [desktop] enabling gnome-session reboot and halt options on logout



On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:52, christophe barbe wrote:
> I agree that shutdown from the logout dialog box would be very nice.
> Clearly the /var/run/console/ RH hack stinks.
> 
> What about a shutdown group and patching gnome-session to only display
> the halt/reboot options if the user is member of the shutdown group.

A bit more blue-sky: have an ACL on /bin/halt and /bin/reboot that only
allows specific users to execute it.  Then the dialog would offer the
options iff the user had execute permission.




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