Why Restart & Shutdown Buttons on login screen

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 00:19 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 08:55 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > I guess I am confused. I can not find an option
> > in /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf or in gdmsetup which controls the
> > display of restart and shutdown in the login screen. I am having
> > trouble finding the line that causes Face browser to show up. 
> 
> You pick a theme that doesn't have them, or use the built-in plain login
> greeter which lets you turn them on and off, then set the login options
> to disallow changing the theme.  Or you could change the commands called
> by GDM if someone picked those shutdown or reboot options (set them to a
> command that does nothing).
> 
> 
> # Reboot, Halt and suspend commands, you can add different commands separated
> # by a semicolon.  GDM will use the first one it can find.
> RebootCommand=/sbin/reboot;/sbin/shutdown -r now;/usr/sbin/shutdown -r now;/usr/bin/reboot
> HaltCommand=/sbin/poweroff;/sbin/shutdown -h now;/usr/sbin/shutdown -h now;/usr/bin/poweroff
> 
> 
> # Enable the Face browser.  Note that the Browser key is only used by the
> # standard login (gdmlogin) program.  The Face Browser is enabled in 
> # the Graphical greeter by selecting a theme that includes the Face
> # Browser, such as happygnome-list.  The other configuration values that
> # affect the Face Browser (MinimalUID, DefaultFace, Include, Exclude,
> # IncludeAll, GlobalFaceDir) are used by both the Standard and Themed
> # greeter.
> Browser=false
> 
> 
> # The Actions menu (formerly system menu) is shown in the greeter, this is the
> # menu that contains reboot, shutdown, suspend, config and chooser.  None of
> # these is available if this is off.  They can be turned off individually
> # however.
> #SystemMenu=true
The above discussion is interesting except in
my /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf file:
Browser=false - yet I have face logins
and
#SystemMenu=true
still I can shutdown from the login menu.

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