On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 12:31:46PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Jehan Procaccia wrote: > >Le 04/09/2013 17:08, Bill Davidsen a écrit : > >> > >>3 - However, if it is your intention to let any user reboot at any time, > >>use visudo to add a line: > >> %booters ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot > >>so the next student could log in and reboot from command line with > >> sudo su /sbin/reboot > >>Note that this requires putting all students allowed to do this (all of > >>them?) into a secondary group allowed to reboot. > >> > >unfortunatly , some user never use a terminal and would'nt know how to use > >a command line as "sudo su /sbin/reboot" > >the purpose here was to enable restart from the drop down menu withing the > >gnome session . > > > Actually command lines are specified in menu items and icons...
I don't think sudo works from a menu, you need gksudo or ksudo for that. That said, sudo is a hammer compared to polkit. For example, polkit can restrict allowed actions to a user present at the physical terminal (as the OP wanted), I don't think sudo can do that. PS: I use sudo all the time, but then on my machines, I'm the only real user. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
