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Re: 'shutdown' options



El mié, 04 de 06 de 2003 a las 20:00, Sven Luther escribió:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:02:47AM -0700, Pete Shinners wrote:
> > this is more of a gnome than debian question, but...
> > 
> > how do i enable the "Shutdown" and "Reboot" buttons on the logout 
> > dialog? it seems if i am logged in as root they are available, but i'd 
> > like to shutdown when i'm normally logged in as well.
> 
> Look at the archive of this list about a discussion i took part in about
> this selfsame subject.
> 
> Hopefully it will be part of the gnome 2.4 target, but upto now, you
> cannot do it (but redhat somehow patched gnome 2.2 to support it).

RedHat did not patched gnome 2.2 to support it, it's supported by
default, but the problem is that it does not see a way that the user
executes the "shutdown" command and then it does not show you the
option.

An easy (but really ugly and insecure) solution could be setuid the
shutdown command and link it at /bin or /usr/bin

RedHat shows it because they use usermode and then they have a
/usr/bin/shutdown command that lets a normal user shutdown the computer.

> 
> > i assume this is permissions on something, but i have been unable to 
> > figure out what to change. i'm using debian unstable, but i'm sure 
> > applies to all gnome2 platforms.
> 
> Yep.

Yes it applies to all gnome 1.4 and 2.x releases (perhaps all 1.x, but
I'm not sure).

Cheers.

> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
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