Anne, you are a wonderful tribute to this community!
I hope you know how well appreciated you are.
Just a short note, in case you've not heard it before.
R,
-Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Anne Wilson
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 06:50
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Disable in X the restart/shutdown by user. How?
On Thursday 18 January 2007 11:23, Rob wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is getting really on my nerves.
>
> I'm running FC6.
> I easily could disable the restart/shutdown buttons
> at the X login screen. Somehow there is a utility
> that let me do that by configuring the layout of
> the X login display.
>
> However, upon X logout, the user gets a 'confirm'
> window to really logout, which is good, but
> unfortunately there is also the two buttons to
> restart and shutdown the whole system.
> I would like to have the latter two disabled.
>
> I've tried several things to no avail:
> 1) Changes in /etc/security/console.apps/
> 2) Changes in /etc/pam.d/
>
> Searching the web for solutions, gave me several
> solutions that did not work; neither did they work
> for those who asked the questions...
>
> So why is this so magically difficult?
> Are reboot and shutdown buttons these days hard
> coded into the system, like in MS-Windows ;( ?
>
> I hope someone can shine some light on this issue.
>
Rob, if you use gnome I can't help, but in kde you can control these things
easily from kcontrol, by a combination of settings in session manager and
login manager. One gives you the option to offer shutdown when logging out,
and the other allows you to set who is allowed to shutdown.
Anne
