securing gnome logoff

[Tristan Wibberley]

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 08:09 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-23-04 at 14:52 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've googled for this and checked the ubuntu lists, but I can't find the
> > answer I'm looking for.
> > 
> > I'd like to prevent users from using the options on the gnome logoff
> > menu from shutting down, rebooting or hibernating the system. Local
> > users will not have physical access to the power switch, cable, or mains
> > socket. Nor will the kernel have SysRQ enabled.
> 
> To disable the hibernate option from that logout menu, you can edit
> the /etc/default/acpi-support and comment out this line:
> ACPI_HIBERNATE=true
> 
> To disable the shutting down and rebooting from both the logout menu and
> the gdm login menu:
> System --> Administration --> Login Screen Setup  and in the Security
> tab, unselect "Show action menu"

Thanks very much.

Is there a way to enable shutting down and rebooting from the login
menu, but not from the logoff menu (as the login menu can be secured to
require the root password)?

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Tristan Wibberley