Re: Preventing users from shuting down the system

[Sebastian Dransfeld <sebastid stud ntnu no>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 hinsen@dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr wrote:

> With a recent update to RedHat Linux 6.1, I also installed GNOME
> and I am generally very pleased with it. However, there is one
> severe security problem that would force me to uninstall GNOME
> if there is no way to solve it. With the GNOME display manager,
> any user can shut down or reboot the system, supplying nothing but
> his own password. This is even listed as a "feature" in the
> (scarce) description of gdmlogin!  On a multiuser system, it should
> be impossible to shut down the machine without supplying the
> root password.

In /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf there is a line:

SystemMenu=1

in the [greeter] section, make this 0, and the reboot/halt menu will
disappear from gdmlogin.

seb