On Sunday 27 April 2008 03:50:15 Bill Davidsen wrote:
"Rahul Tidke" wrote:
> Hello All,
> I wonder about these buttons on gnome desktop; do we really need these
> buttons on login screen? Reboot and shutdown allowed before login for any
> user??
The machines are configured for use by normal users. That means that
many are used by people who should not have privilege on the machine. As
someone said, with energy costs high, downtime is desirable for most users.
In most cases people with access to the console have access to the
machine, and can get it to power down in some way other than a normal
shutdown. Therefore we make it moderately easy for people to do the
right thing, certain that people who have some need to have the machine
on all the time will take a moment and locate the configuration which
allows you to take those options off the board.
The default behavior is what is useful to most people. That's desirable.
One situation I haven't seen mentioned is when the login screen refuses to
accept keyboard input. On the box running rawhide I saw this frequently when
Mandriva 2007 was installed and I've seen it once under rawhide. Using the
mouse + menu on the login screen got a clean re-start of X which cured the
problem. What would I have done without it?
Anne