remove "shutdown" option from gnome system (not gdm!) menu?
Berna Massingill
bmassing at cs.trinity.edu
Wed Oct 4 12:52:25 UTC 2006
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:46:48PM -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
>> Gnome 2.6 purplorts to have this feature:
>> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.6/notes/rnwhatsnew.html
>> (near the bottom - "lockdown" section).
>>
Which sounds really promising, doesn't it? but as I think you also
found out, "disallow shutdown" isn't one of the things one can lock
down.
>> The "thin clients" I spoke of are essentially running the same remote
>> X command you mentioned above. I thought you might be able to see if
>> somehow the remote screen toggled something in Gnome to remove the
>> "shut down" command.
It must, but I don't know where to start looking for that! (Maybe
someone else can point me/us?)
>> Still poking around - seems like the value would be in gconf
>> *somewhere* - just don't see it...
Yeah. I tried doing "gconftool-2 -R /", which as best I can tell
should list all the configurable options, and I didn't find anything
either. (If someone knows a better way -- ?)
-- blm
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