Why Restart & Shutdown Buttons on login screen

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Apr 27 03:02:37 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 15:13 +0200, Antonio M wrote:
> in anycase any user can press the power button or unplug the system,
> so there is no safety reason to have only root options. 

I'd maintain them as *options*, something that you could restrict, or
allow.

I've had a related desire:  I wish the machine's power button could
initiate a shutdown at the login screen, just like it can do when a user
is logged in.  I think that those sort of things, what the hardware
buttons do (power/sleep/etc.), should be per-machine configuration, not
per-user.

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