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Bug#590617: marked as done (wdm: Why one has to login to do HALT !! Please make LINUX SIMPLE and HUMAN !)

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and subject line Re: Bug#590617: wdm: Why one has to login to do HALT !! Please make LINUX SIMPLE and HUMAN !
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regarding wdm: Why one has to login to do HALT !! Please make LINUX SIMPLE and HUMAN !
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: wdm
Version: 1.28-4
Severity: important

Dear Sir,

It is of no senses to make linux asking a login and password to halt it.

Please a fix asap !
Thank you
Best regards
Y.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wdm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.33     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfontconfig1                2.8.0-2.1  generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpam-modules                1.1.1-3    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime                1.1.1-3    Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.1-3    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.94-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libwraster3                   0.92.0-8.2 Shared libraries of Window Maker r
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                       1:1.0.5-2  X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6                     1:1.0.3-2  X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.2-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                       2.1.14-2   FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1                  2:1.1-3    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxmu6                       2:1.0.5-1  X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  psmisc                        22.11-1    utilities that use the proc file s
ii  x11-apps                      7.5+5      X applications
ii  x11-common                    1:7.5+6    X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii  x11-utils                     7.5+4      X11 utilities
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.5+1+b1   X server utilities

wdm recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wdm suggests:
ii  xfonts-base                   1:1.0.1    standard fonts for X

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config'

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: wdm
  wdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/wdm

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:53:49AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2010-07-27 22:35:21, schrieb yellow:
> > Package: wdm
> > Version: 1.28-4
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Dear Sir,
> > 
> > It is of no senses to make linux asking a login and password to halt it.
> 
> Because it is not realy funny to  have  someone  shutdown  the  computer
> without permissions while you are running backgrond processes?
> 
> Note:   My Devel-Workstation is the fastest existing Quad-Phenom and
>         I do heavy dataprocessing, while I am not on my computer.
> 
> However if you want to shutdown your Computer, configure system to allow
> <CTRL><ALT><DEL> to shutdown the computer.
> 
> > Please a fix asap !
> 
> WONTFIX!

Hi,

Just noticed that this can be configured by means of options

DisplayManager.wdmVerify
              If true, verify user's identity for reboot/halt/exit.

DisplayManager.wdmRoot
              If true, user must be root to exit.
 
so there is no bug here. Default value is reasonable for reasons pointed out
by Michelle and changing it is easy (do it in /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config, both
options default to true there)

Closing this bug report.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin

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