On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 17:28 +0000, Alex Mayorga Adame wrote: > @James, maybe you might want to take a look into their code, or maybe > they're not doing "what we want". BTW "what we want" is that not every > user is allowed to shutdown the host or what?
Yeah, it's not desirable to have any user be able to shutdown the system. I've just had a look at fast-user-switch-applet, thanks for the tip. It also uses GDM, but at least has a simple authentication check which should ensure that only local console users can shut down the system. This would be better than the gnome-session way of doing it, but still lacking I think. The problem is that using something like policykit/consolekit solves this quite nicely, but it's not really the right place for the functionality, and leads to a circular build dependency, which is a pain. One solution could be to pull the code out of consolekit in to a "ShutdownKit" package, and then patch all the other packages to use its dbus path instead. I'm not the person to decide all of this though, I was just investigating the current state to see what our options were. Thanks, James -- shutdown and restart buttons do nothing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250506 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
