Re: gshutdown and the trash can thingy in GNOME

2001-08-26 Thread Timeboy
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:14:47 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > ** 2.)Still in GNOME: in gshutdown, how do I make normal user accounts able > to shutdown/reboot without the need for su/sudoing at the console? I would > appreciate such as some of our computers here are turned on/off on a regu

Re: gshutdown for non­root users? / gdm blank screen

2000-03-24 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 02:18:14PM +0100, Dr. Michael R. Semple wrote: > Anyway, to my questions: I wanted to allow my family to shutdown the > computer without giving them the root password. At first I installed > sudo and set it up so that they could type "sudo shutdown -h now" at > the command

Re: gshutdown for non­root users? / gdm blank screen

2000-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 02:18:14PM +0100, Dr. Michael R. Semple wrote: > My second question concerns gdm. I've set things up within Gnome so > that the screen turns on a screensaver after 10 minutes and then > enters powersaving mode after another 20. The only problem is that > the users general

Re: gshutdown

1999-05-06 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Robert Kerr wrote: > I'm using gnome with enlightenment, and I'd like to add the gshutdown to > my panel. I've added it successfully, changed gshutdown to setuid root, You should know that this is a *huge* security hole. You're welcome to have such a hole if your system doesn