Re: normal user can shut down the system
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 05:28:49PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 03 octobre 2004 à 10:23 -0500, Kenny Hitt a écrit :
> > Hi. I'm running the Gnome 2.6 on Sarge. I just noticed a normal user
> > can choose to shutdown or reboot the system on logout. How can I
> > disable such a stupid feature? I'm sure this was discussed, but I can't
> > find the info. Would someone please point me to a doc about this stupid
> > option and how to disable it? Since the option is on the Gnome log out
> > dialog and I can't find anything about it in /etc/gdm.conf, it must be a
> > part of Gnome.
>
> It's a known issue, see http://bugs.debian.org/261980
>
> In summary, this is a feature in gnome-session, but disabling it
> wouldn't change anything, as the user would still be able to shut down
> the computer using gdmflexiserver.
>
Thanks for the info. Time to purge gdm from my systems and replace it
with xdm. From what I read in the bug reports, that will fix the
problem. I wish Debian would just remove gdm until such a major bug can
be fixed. At the least, the user should be worned about it when they
install gdm.
Kenny
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