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Re: 'shutdown' options



El mié, 04 de 06 de 2003 a las 21:06, Sven Luther escribió:
[...]
 
> > 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.


I don't know, perhaps with the sudo script you were suggesting...

[...]
 
> > > > > > 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 ?

I took those options from gnome-session 2.3 directly from GNOME's CVS so
it should work with it...

Cheers

> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
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