Re: Rebooting and halting the system in gnome

["Amar S. Bhatti" <lzxx4x powertrain mpg gm com>]

Hi folks

I also am using RH6.2 Helixgnome1.2, however even when logged out of
gnome i still need to provide passwd to halt or reboot, personally i like the
passwd feature since this takes all chance of logout by mistake

Later
 
On 14-Jun-2000 Hassan Aurag wrote:
> 
> 
>  Under RH 6.2 and I guess other flavors, once logged out, gdm allows 
> you to halt, reboot machine without any password.
> 
>  
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> On 6/7/00, 4:26:42 PM, "Michael Rogers" <mrogers@cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote 
> regarding Re: Rebooting and halting the system in gnome:
> 
> 
>> > Is there any way of normal users to reboot or halt the machine
>> > without being prompted for they password?? I think such an option
>> > should be located in the Control Centre, but it isn't.
> 
>> While it would obviously be a bad idea to allow remotely-logged-in 
> users to
>> shut down a machine, there is not much point in stopping users who are 
> sitting
>> at the console from doing so. After all, they have the power switch in 
> front
>> of them. Allowing users to shut down the machine safely is preferable 
> to
>> making them resort to hitting the power switch.
> 
>> Is there any way of finding out whether a user initially logged in at 
> the
>> console? (Not the tty they are currently using, the one they logged in 
> on.) I
>> guess this is an OS-specific question? You would probably need to 
> modify
>> /sbin/shutdown to find out the user's tty. (?)
> 
>  Yes there is, I am not sure how it works, but I guess it looks for 
> your tty to see where you are logged from.
> 
>> Michael
> 
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Amar