Here's a thought: why don't you create a group shutdown_privileges and
allow anyone with access to the group to run a shell script like:
#! /usr/bin/bash
#wait 10 minutes before rebooting
shutdown -r -t time 10
That would be more secure then allowing everyone access to shutdown,
while at the sam
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From: David Fokkema [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:09 AM
To: debian list
Subject: Re: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:34, Ben Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:00, Martin Jungowski wr
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:34, Ben Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:00, Martin Jungowski wrote:
>
> > You can also set SUID on shutdown and add a Launcher to your Panel or
> > Desktop in GNome.
>
> Managed to SUID Root on shutdown (chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown) and can
> shutdown from a comman
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:00, Martin Jungowski wrote:
> You can also set SUID on shutdown and add a Launcher to your Panel or
> Desktop in GNome.
Managed to SUID Root on shutdown (chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown) and can
shutdown from a command line but how do I add to the launcher. I tried
one with the
Hi,
Redhat has somehow managed to allow any user to shut the computer down
from the GNome logout menu. Usually, that only appears in case you're
running GNome2 as root - hence it almost never happens.
I have tried everything to get that enhanced logout menu in Debian
unstable / GNome2.x but I hav
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Ben Edwards wrote:
Is there a way of allowing any user to shutdown. Idealy from the
taskbar (but I guess in this case it's simply a case of writing a short
script and calling it from the taksbar.
Ben
Have a look to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
Also accessable as su -c "/usr/sbin
Have a look to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
Ben Edwards wrote:
Is there a way of allowing any user to shutdown. Idealy from the
taskbar (but I guess in this case it's simply a case of writing a short
script and calling it from the taksbar.
Ben
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Ben
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