Re: 'shutdown' options
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:52:08PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> El mié, 04 de 06 de 2003 a las 20:39, Sven Luther escribió:
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:32:09PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Are you sure of that ?
>
> It was last time I looked at it (gnome 1.4) and the official code has
> not change lot since then...
>
> Well, It's not the shutdown command (sorry) the commands it use are
> "poweroff", "halt" and "reboot"
Ok, i will try it.
> > > An easy (but really ugly and insecure) solution could be setuid the
> > > shutdown command and link it at /bin or /usr/bin
> >
> > Nope, this does not work, at least when i tried it. shutdown is not
> > satisfied by setuid privilege, it needs real root.
>
> Try with the other commands.
Ok, altough i was launching the setuid shutdown command from the
console, and it was not happy. I somehow doubt that poweroff, halt or
reboot will behave any differently, after all, they are only wrappers
around shutdown or something like that.
> > > RedHat shows it because they use usermode and then they have a
> > > /usr/bin/shutdown command that lets a normal user shutdown the computer.
> >
> > Maybe having a shutdown command that is a wrapper and calls sudo if
> > needed could be a temporary solution.
>
> Yes, it could be a temporary solution but it seems to be as ugly as the
> other option I wrote before.. (more secure, but ugly).
>
> > > > > 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).
> >
> > A workaround for gnome 1.4 was to have a shutdown button which called
> > sudo gshutdown. This does not work anymore for 2.X though.
>
> You should be able to do it also with the --with-reboot-command and
> --with-halt-command options at compile time, but perhaps you should pass
> "sudo, gshutdown" instead of "sudo gshutdown"
But this does not work with 2.x, right ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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