Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400
> [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, seems like a big security hole to me.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Build gnome with the policykit flag set. Then you need to give permission to
> the user to shutdown or restart.
> I do not know about GDM.
>
> Have you looked in gconf-editor for a setting?
I did not look in gconf editor, and gdm at least, is compiled with the
policykit use flag, so I am not sure where to go with this. Where would
I look in gconf?
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