Shutdown is too easy

[Jean-François Wauthy]

Le mardi 19 juillet 2005 à 23:33 -0400, David A. De Graaf a écrit :
> The 'exit' popup window offers three choices:
>   - Quit current session
>   - Reboot the computer
>   - Turn off the computer
> 
> The convenience of single clicking to shut down the computer is vastly
> exceeded by the danger.  I would like to delete or disable this
> third option.  Such an irreversible action should take more effort.
> 
> In preparation for a trip, I was experimenting with running a VNC
> connection from a laptop over an SSH tunnel to my main home computer.
> (XFCE works great in this configuration!)  However, I accidentally clicked
> "Turn off the computer".  Luckily I was sitting at home and could push
> the power button to turn it back on, but the thought of doing this while
> away from home is too scary to think about.
> 
> Is there a way to remove this dangerous option?
> 
IIRC the only way to stop the system whithout any further confirmation
is by setting sudo to not ask password for the current user for at
least /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot/ and /sbin/shutdown

so i'd say configure sudo to ask you a password when you try to shutdown
the system...

cheers
-- 
Jean-François Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org>
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