This thread has generated several questions. Let me see if I can
answer a couple of them.
How do you stop Shutdown, Reboot, etc from being displayed at the
login screen:
You can configure GDM (or the Display Manager of your choice) to
display what you want. For GDM, you would look in /usr/share/gdm. I
believe you would edit the defaults.conf file. You can use gdmsetup
to control some of these things, but editing the setup file gives
you finer control. You also have the option of choosing a theme that
does not include them.
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How can you control the ability to run the shutdown, reboot, etc
commands by users.
You can modify the file in /etc/security/console.apps to control
what conditions must be met to run the command. In other words, you
can change the defaults that let the console user run the commands
to instead require the root password. (Or that the user be a member
of a specif group, or other conditions.)
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One other thing to keep in mind - If you can get at the keyboard,
the default action of hitting Ctrl-Alt-Delete is to run the shutdown
command. If you want it to do something else, you need to edit
/etc/inittab and change "ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now"
to what you want the system to do.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
I have been waiting for some solution! Thanks. I was not sure whether to
post this question (Why restart & shutdown buttons) and is this really an
issue? But after reading all the replies; I realize such small things really
matters!!
Thank You.
Rahul.
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