remove "shutdown" option from gnome system (not gdm!) menu?
Berna Massingill
bmassing at cs.trinity.edu
Tue Oct 17 22:11:27 UTC 2006
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:10:46AM +0930, Tim wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 10:47 -0500, Berna Massingill wrote:
>> > What I'm kind of wondering, though, is how any of this helps if users
>> > have physical access to the machine's power switch
>>
>> One thing that springs to mind is to intervene (put something that
>> intercepts what the menus usually do), so that when someone does use the
>> shutdown option, they get a warning in their face that this is a
>> multi-user machine, and they should just log-out, instead, unless they
>> really need to turn off the box. Then give them appropriate choices
>> (logout, reboot, shutdown).
(Sorry about the long delay in responding. Things get hectic sometimes.)
That would be a good solution, all right! if only I had time to implement
it -- unless there's a quick and easy approach I'm not thinking of?
Maybe write something quick-and-dirty in some language that supports
GUIs, and have it executed instead of shutdown? which could probably be
done by making appropriate changes in /etc/gdm/custom.conf, guided by
/usr/share/gdm/default.conf ....
And I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea to try to make my case about this
being a usability defect in -- whatever mailing list or forum is used by
the GNOME developers? not that it will necessarily have any effect, but
might be worthwhile to at least speak up.
-- blm
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