Re: 'shutdown' options

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:11:41PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> 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...

Will test.

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

I wonder if they are already there in gnome-session 2.2 and if yes, if
Christian Marillat would enable a call to a wrapper script or something
such in the default debian package.

Friendly,

Sven Luther