On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:10:46AM +0930, Tim wrote: >> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 10:47 -0500, Berna Massingill wrote: >> > What I'm kind of wondering, though, is how any of this helps if users >> > have physical access to the machine's power switch >> >> One thing that springs to mind is to intervene (put something that >> intercepts what the menus usually do), so that when someone does use the >> shutdown option, they get a warning in their face that this is a >> multi-user machine, and they should just log-out, instead, unless they >> really need to turn off the box. Then give them appropriate choices >> (logout, reboot, shutdown). (Sorry about the long delay in responding. Things get hectic sometimes.) That would be a good solution, all right! if only I had time to implement it -- unless there's a quick and easy approach I'm not thinking of? Maybe write something quick-and-dirty in some language that supports GUIs, and have it executed instead of shutdown? which could probably be done by making appropriate changes in /etc/gdm/custom.conf, guided by /usr/share/gdm/default.conf .... And I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea to try to make my case about this being a usability defect in -- whatever mailing list or forum is used by the GNOME developers? not that it will necessarily have any effect, but might be worthwhile to at least speak up. -- blm
