----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 23:08 Subject: Re: GUI login screen.
> Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >There are a few things I dont understand about Debians login screen. > >1. Root cannot log in on this screen. Why? > > > > > > > Security issues. > At the expense of being a stupid newbie, what security issues RH and Caldera both have root on their login screen. Has the rash of virisus caused a reconsideration of this. Not being disposed in this direction or capable of exploting any security hole I dont understand the problem. > >2. The sessions secect drop down menu has: Gnome, Gnome chooser, Debian, > >KDE, Xsession, Failsafe Gnome, Failsafe KDE. When you leave Gnome or KDE by > >pressing the logout button you are told that you can logout, change logins > >or shutdown. Well I cant figure out how to shutdown other than login as me > >and start a terminal su, enter password, and issue the shutdown command. > >This is too much Cntl-alt-del would be simpler assuming I wanted to go to > >Windows, But how do you to go to shutdown -h now? > > > > > > > > As a normal user, you don't have permission to shut down. You have to > reconfigure whatever session manager you're using (kdm, gdm, wdm, xdm) > and edit the appropriate config file to allow normal users (or at least > you) to shut down. Figure out which session manager you're using and let > us know ("ps ax | grep [d]m" should give you a good clue), and then we > can probably be more specific as to what needs to be changed in what file. > > -- > Kent > On a network I can understand why a normal used cannot shutdown the system, but a single user should be able to shutdown, reboot, etc, without becoming root. This shouldnt be a big problem. The output of ps ax | grep [d]m (some day I'll understand that grep command): 380 ? S /usr/bin/gdm 391 ? S /usr/bin/gdm 392 ? S /usr/bin/X11/X:0 -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp vt7 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0,xauth ?shouldnt there be only 1 (either 380 or 391) and what does 392 mean. Regards; Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]