Alois, If users have physical access to the systems and can hit the power button or unplug the system, I strongly recommend that you leave the shutdown option on the start menu. If a user is determined to shutdown/reboot a computer, I would much rather they shut it down gracefully by using the shutdown command than doing it harshly buy holding the power button or unplugging the system, which can lead to a host of other problems.
-- Prentice On 10/05/2011 08:49 AM, Horst Severini wrote: > Hi Alois, > > I'm not sure there is a way to remove that, and I'm not sure it makes too > much sense to look too hard for it, either, since when someone is sitting > right in front of a computer, they can (a) shut it down from the login screen, > or (b) press the power button or (c) unplug the power cord, so in my mind > it doesn't much matter if you eliminate one way to shut it down when > there are several other you can't eliminate. > > Just my 2c, > > Horst > > Alois Treindl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have recently installed RHEL6 with GNOME desktop. >> >> In each user's menu appeasr under the entry 'System' also to item 'Shut >> down' >> >> I would like to remove this item for all users except root. >> In fact normal users can use this link to shut down the system, they are >> not asked for root password. I do not know how this can happen? >> Where can I at least configure that they are asked the root password for >> shutdown? >> _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
