session

[Benedikt Meurer]

ewajacobs wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 14:56 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
>>On 10/22/04 12:10, ewajacobs wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 17:53 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote
>>>
>>>>you need to have sudo set up to allow your user to run 'shutdown', and
>>>>possibly 'reboot', 'halt', and/or 'poweroff' as well.
>>>
>>>Nice try ;)
>>>But I already did 'chmod +s /sbin/poweroff' and the same for reboot ages
>>>ago, so that isn't the problem. :)
>>>Cheers
>>
>>hmm, last time i tried that, when i ran it, it noticed the suid bit and
>>refused to shut the machine down (presumably, for security reasons).  at
>>any rate, i believe the shutdown helper requires that sudo be set up
>>properly, so the permissions on the binaries themselves are irrelevant.
>>
>>i believe the "nice try" goes to you ^_~.
> 
> Hmm, blah :)
> I tried the /etc/sudoers approach by adding the lines:
> q  localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
> q  localhost=/sbin/halt
> q  localhost=/sbin/poweroff
> q  localhost=/sbin/reboot
> 
> But the thing still comments out two options (reboot and turn off)
> 
> I forgot something?
> cheers

RTFM xfce4-session/README section 'Shutting down your computer using the 
session manager'.

> Emil

Benedikt