RE: Turning off Reboot/Halt in gdm

[Matthew Harrell <mhar plex-sys com>]

I tried this already and it didn't work.  I found an older gdm document on
a Red Hat 6.0 server I set up a while ago.  This document
(/usr/doc/gdm-1.0.0/gdm-manual.txt) discusses this option in a section of
gdm.conf called [system].  However, in the gdm.conf file on this new box,
there is no [system] section.  I've tried adding the ShutdownMenu to other
sections of gdm.conf that are already there, and I tried creating a
[system] section with just the ShutdownMenu line, and neither worked.

Matt Harrell
mhar@plex-sys.com
http://www.plex-sys.com

On 10/27/99 at 12:31 you wrote:

>Go to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and change
>
>ShutdownMenu=1
>
>to 
>
>ShutdownMenu=0
>
>to disable the option.
>
>That said, if your users have access to the power switch or cable, it's a
>moot point. It's probably better that they be able to shutdown/reboot the
>system "correctly" than just pull the plug...
>
>--
>Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <mmt@unify.com>
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Harrell [mailto:mhar@plex-sys.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:23 PM
>To: gnome-list@gnome.org
>Subject: Turning off Reboot/Halt in gdm
>
>
>Hello,
>
>If this is not the right list for this, please let me know.  I'm setting up
>a mail and DNS server for a customer using Red Hat 6.1.  It's got gdm
>version 2.0beta2.  I'm trying to figure out how to make is so that on the
>console X display, you have to type the root password in order to be able
>to reboot or halt the system.  By default, it will let anyone go to the
>System menu in the login window and reboot or halt the machine.  If it's
>not possible to have it ask for a root password, then I'd like to simply
>turn this feature off.  I can't find anything in the GNOME configuration or
>in the gdm.conf to do, it, though.  In addition, I can't find the
>README.install file for gdm that is mentioned in the
>/usr/doc/gdm-2.0beta2/README file as being the document that describes this
>stuff.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>
>Matt Harrell
>mhar@plex-sys.com
>http://www.plex-sys.com
>
>
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