Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Keep in mind that my incremental power costs right now are $0.42/KWH. >> For monthly costs I use 24*365/12 = 730 hours/month. > > Wow, it is only $0.07 cents/kWh here (St Louis, Missouri,

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Keep in mind that my incremental power costs right now are $0.42/KWH. > For monthly costs I use 24*365/12 = 730 hours/month. Wow, it is only $0.07 cents/kWh here (St Louis, Missouri, USA). The electric company wants to raise rates and the gene

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Computers are a big portion of the bill around here and learning how >> to reduce power is high on my priorities for the next few months. I'm >> not sure how to handle a multi-use box li

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Computers are a big portion of the bill around here and learning how > to reduce power is high on my priorities for the next few months. I'm > not sure how to handle a multi-use box like this. It's an 8-thread i7 > processor. I was wondering a

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 26 Apr 2010, at 14:25, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> ... I have a machine that's a >> MythTV backend server. It sits quietly in our living room doing it's >> job, but it only does that roughly 4 hours per day so for 20 hours it >> wastes electric

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Apr 2010, at 14:25, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I have a machine that's a MythTV backend server. It sits quietly in our living room doing it's job, but it only does that roughly 4 hours per day so for 20 hours it wastes electricity. To make more use of the hardware my wife and son use it at tim

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
David W Noon wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:40:02 +0200, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote about > Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown > buttons: > > >I did not look in gconf editor, and gdm at least, is compiled with the > >policykit us

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:40:02 +0200, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons: >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

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
Jonathan wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 > cov...@ccs.covici.com 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 authenticatio

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Jonathan
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com 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 thi

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 April 2010 13:28:50 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > 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. Ah, I see. Well, that's more-or-less how SuSE us

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:28 AM, wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com 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 a

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com 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 authenticat

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com 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

[gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
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. -- Your life is like