Alois, That's a different situation than the one described earlier, and I agree that you don't what users to be able to shutdown a system in that arrangement.
Prentice On 10/05/2011 04:43 PM, Alois Treindl wrote: > I find it a terrible mistake by Redhat to install an unmodified GNOME > with shutdown permission for non-root users. > > We run our company server with about 10 X-terminals used by office > staff. The server needs to run permanently, but the X-terminals are just > used during office hours by non-technical staff. > > The x-terminals use the Gnome desktop of the server via XDMCP. We have > used this setup since many years, first with HP-UX, since eight years > with various versions of RHEL. The server is physically remote in a > server room. > > It is an excellent solution, low maintenance, adequate performance for > office work. > > Please don't tell me we should use a local window manager on the > x-terminals. These are horrible monsters. We like the desktop offered by > RHEL. > > Such an x-terminal user, when he/she wants to logout and turn off the > x-terminal, will easily make a mistake to 'shut down' the server if this > option is offered as it is, and not even protected by the root password. > > I found an article describing a solution: > http://www.shaunrowland.com/fsync/2011/04/20/removing-shut-down-from-the-gnome-panel-in-rhel-6/ > > But when you read through this, you notice how complex it is. And each > gnome update will overwrite the special configuration it is. A design > fault by Gnome, I agree with the author. > Redhat should not have accepted this design fault on their system. > > We will switch back to KDE desktop, after using Gnome since RHEL5. KDE > at least has no such stupid power-down by normal users. As the KDE > konsole terminal is finally able to handle utf8 properly, including > Asian languages with good fonts, as gnome-terminal did since a long time > already, there is no string reason to stick with gnome now. > > > On 10/05/2011 03:10 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
