Re: reboot/shutdown/logout options MIA on Debian?

[Geoffrey <esoteric 3times25 net>]

Rich Rudnick wrote:
> On Thursday 16 January 2003 06:20 am, kend xanoptix com wrote:
>
> > While I -do- appreciate the advice, at least for Gnome 1.x, it qualifies
> > as "close, but not quite."  I -do- get prompted at logout: "Really log
> > out?", with a "save current settings" checkbox.  I do not get, however,
> > the "reboot/shutdown/logout" options.  I'm assuming it's somehow keyed to
> > the user logged in at the console -- after all, they can always hit
> > <ctl><alt><f1>,<ctl><alt><del>, and reboot the machine (unless it's been
> > disabled), so it's not really that big of a security concern for the
> > console user.  But I just can't quite figure out where that is...
>
>
> Debian doesn't have this, it's a redhatism.  RH uses 'consolehelper', which 
> allows controlling user access to shutdown/logout through PAM, and the gnome 
> logout accesses that for creating the reboot/shutdown/logout options. (I'm 
> not sure if it's part of gnome, or if redhat added those options.)  GDM will 
> reboot or shutdown; use gdmconfigurator as root to enable the system menu.

Mandrake and SuSE have it as well.


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