Re: Gnome logout script

[Mark Finlay <sisob tuxfamily org>]

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 15:23, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:51, Sean Atkinson wrote:
> 
> > Browsing the source for gnome-session, I notice a logout command can be
> > set.  Currently it's only used for invoking poweroff or reboot if
> > selected in the GUI, but it seems the natural place to add some logout
> > script too.  However I don't understand how either reboot or poweroff
> > work since the gnome-session process doesn't seem to be running as
> > root...
> 
> Just a note here - many systems let users run the reboot/poweroff
> commands.  If the user can't run these, those items won't be in the
> logoff menu.  They're convenient for single-user (at a time) home
> machines and such, and don't constitute a true security hole, in those
> cases.

Another note is that this doesn't work very consistently:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114432
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84054

And slightly related: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70710

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