Re: Preventing users from shuting down the system

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

hinsen@dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr writes:

> With the GNOME display manager, any user can shut down or reboot the
> system, supplying nothing but his own password. This is even listed
> as a "feature" in the (scarce) description of gdmlogin!  On a
> multiuser system, it should be impossible to shut down the machine
> without supplying the root password.

Someone else has already shown you how to remove this feature, but let
me offer a little perspective.

If someone is at the console, they can (and alarmingly often do) hit
the power switch, jab the reset button, or hit C-A-DEL.  With physical
access, if someone wants to shut down or reboot the system, they're
going to do so.  This just gives them a safe way of doing it.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
What this country needs is a good five cent ANYTHING!