Re: requirements for xfsm-shutdown-helper
Peter Crawford wrote:
Folk,
A year or two back in Etch, xfsm-shutdown-helper
with the appropriate entry in /etc/sudoers, allowed
"Log Out", "Restart" and "Shut Down".
Now in Lenny, this message is on the console after
Log Out.
** Message: xfsm-shutdown-helper.c:215: Hal not available or does not permit to
shutdown/reboot the computer, trying sudo fallback instead.
What should be changed to allow xfsm-shutdown-helper
to work fully? Should there be a file /etc/hal.conf
or /etc/hal/hal.conf? Are udev rules needed?
Have you read '/usr/share/doc/xfce4-session/README.Debian'?
=== QUOTE ===
Managing shutdown
-----------------
There are three ways to enable user to shutdown the computer from Xfce:
- use sudo, and allow user to run /usr/sbin/xfsm-shutdown-helper in
sudoers
- use dbus and hal
- hal and dbus should be installed, up and running
- user should be in powerdev group
- use policykit and a compatible login manager (gdm is known to work)
=== END QUOTE ===
Personally, I switched to the hal/dbus method after having used the
'sudo' method for a while. Both worked fine, but I decided that
adding myself to the "powerdev" group made more sense to me than
needing to grant myself root permissions just to power off. Opinions
will vary, of course -- the rest of the Linux world seems to be much
less suspicious of things like 'su' and 'sudo' than myself.
HTH,
Dave W.
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