Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons --
> > restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the
> > action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication
> > at all -- how do I fix this
>
> Use the keyboard instead. You already have your hands on it to type your
> password, no?
>
> > seems like a big security hole to me.
>
> To me it seems like rational behaviour. You tell it to shut down - it
> shuts down. Or do you want Gnome to be like Windows and challenge every
> action you give it?
>
I don't want a non-root user to be able to shut the computer down -- I
did it my mistake and its strange to have it there anyway -- least it
should do is ask for the root password.
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