On Aug 21 2001, 22:59 +, Digital Wokan wrote:
I thought it was a permissions issue. If halt and reboot are available
through KDE to a normal user, that means a user would be able to reboot
any system with KDE on it.
---tom:---
They *are* available to every user via KDM's 'shutdown'
I thought it was a permissions issue. If halt and reboot are
available
through KDE to a normal user, that means a user would be able to
reboot
any system with KDE on it.
They *are* available. Just do poweroff in terminal window :-) See man
consolehelper for details.
-andrej
I'd rather see them removed. I've seen too many Windows users pick
the
wrong option from their shutdown menus to trust them with the same
choice exiting Linux. For example: What if the company doesn't want
its users shutting down the systems? Maybe they have an automated
update or
I'd rather see them removed. I've seen too many Windows users pick the
wrong option from their shutdown menus to trust them with the same
choice exiting Linux. For example: What if the company doesn't want
its users shutting down the systems? Maybe they have an automated
update or backup
I like the feature (and it currently works for me). I
know that you can control user access to reboot from
kdm, as long as this is not a backdoor around that I
think it is a good thing. The kdm control over reboot
is in root's mcc logon manager
--- Digital Wokan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 08:12 am, you wrote:
I'd rather see them removed. I've seen too many Windows users pick the
wrong option from their shutdown menus to trust them with the same
choice exiting Linux. For example: What if the company doesn't want
its users shutting down the
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 11:12, Digital Wokan wrote:
I'd rather see them removed. I've seen too many Windows users pick
the
wrong option from their shutdown menus to trust them with the same
choice exiting Linux. For example: What if the company doesn't
want
its users shutting
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 11:12, Digital Wokan wrote:
I'd rather see them removed. I've seen too many Windows users pick the
wrong option from their shutdown menus to trust them with the same
choice exiting Linux. For example: What if the company doesn't want
its users shutting down the
Start KDE with startx as normal user. Press 'Exit (menu or applet).
Neither Halt nor Reboot work - I exit KDE (and X session) but no Halt or
Reboot.
BTW Halt is not really useful. I would expect Poweroff here, at least
together with Halt (but what do you do with Halt on Intel PC? there is
no
I thought it was a permissions issue. If halt and reboot are available
through KDE to a normal user, that means a user would be able to reboot
any system with KDE on it.
Tom Berger wrote:
On Aug 21 2001, 22:21 +, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
Start KDE with startx as normal user. Press 'Exit
On Aug 21 2001, 22:21 +, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
Start KDE with startx as normal user. Press 'Exit (menu or applet).
Neither Halt nor Reboot work - I exit KDE (and X session) but no Halt or
Reboot.
BTW Halt is not really useful. I would expect Poweroff here, at least
together with
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