Re: shutdown from gnome logout dialog
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:06:39PM +0200, Thomas Morin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been reading some recent threads on this list proposing solutions
> to make it possible to shutdown (or reboot) their workstation directly
> from the gnome session logout dialog.
>
> Some solutions proposed were based on some sudo wrapper (or PAM trick)
> called by gnome-session at logout time. This setup has some drawbacks since
> it gives the ability of shutting down the server to more people than
> necessary for this feature. Moreover the gdm PostSession script might not
> be ran. Making gdm do the shutdown itself at session logout avoid some
> permission related problems.
>
> Here is the principle I propose :
> - at logout, gnome-session proposes the reboot and halt options to the user
> - if halt [or reboot] is chosen, a $HOME/.gdm-halt file [or .gdm-reboot]
> file is created
> - in the gdm PostSession script (which is run by gdm as root), the
> existence of those files is tested
> - if one of them exists and if the configuration allows, shutdown
> (or reboot) of the workstation is triggered
Yep, if you look back to discussions about this on this list now one or
two years old, i have been suggesting just this kind of stuff, altough
at the time nobody appeared to care. Thanks for taking it one step
further to realization.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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