Re: gnome feature or Ximian feature ?

[christophe barbé <christophe barbe lineo fr>]

Is it possible for a program to check if Pam would allow or not a given
program execution ? 
(I'm speaking about the logout dialog box which IIRC is part of the gnome
panel).  
I know nearly nothing about Pam authorization.
What I am supposed to do to allow normal user to use halt/shutdown with Pam
?

Christophe

Le lun, 16 jui 2001 12:54:20, Telsa Gwynne a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:03:21AM +0200 or thereabouts, christophe barbé
> wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > 
> > I've heard this but it seems not enough (or I need to set the SUID
> bit).
> > 
> > > ll /sbin/halt  
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7.6k mai 14 18:01 /sbin/halt
> > > ll /sbin/shutdown 
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          15k mai 14 18:01 /sbin/shutdown
> > 
> > btw, I believe that this is true but only with Ximian.
> 
> This is the gnome-logout box? And in some situations it asks
> whether you want to reboot/shut down/etc stuff as well as "logout"?
> 
> I believe that's handled by pam (pluggable authentication module).
> It works on plain RH. I can't remember whether it works on Debian.
> It went away when I put Ximian on both. 
> 
> Telsa
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