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Re: Debian 8: Shutdown, Reboot, Suspend und Hibernate only after entering root password



On Thu 14 Jan 2016 at 16:10:03 +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:

> Some days ago, I installed some machines with Debian jessie. Now I want to
> achieve that, from the different desktop environments (KDE, GNOME, etc.),
> the computers can only be shutdown, rebooted, suspended or hibernated,
> after entering the root password.
> 
> In Debian 7, I achieved that by creating a file
> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-menu.pkla with the
> following contents:

[Snip]

> In Debian 8, this does not have the desired effect any more. Obviously,
> the names of the actions have been changed to
> org.freedesktop.login1.reboot etc., but even after replacing the action
> names in custom-menu.pkla accordingly, no root authentication is required
> before shutting down the computers.
> 
> So, what is the correct way to achieve my goal in jessie?

We had something similar just recently. You probably need to adjust your
Action line.

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/01/msg00174.html

Any use?


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