Shutdown is too easy
brettholcomb at bellsouth.net
brettholcomb at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 20 14:06:12 CEST 2005
How do you have it set up. It wasn't an option on mine unless I set the users up in the sudoers file. Until then there was no way I could shutdown from xfce - all I could do as a user was exit.
>
> From: "David A. De Graaf" <dad at datix.2y.net>
> Date: 2005/07/19 Tue PM 11:33:08 EDT
> To: xfce at xfce.org
> Subject: Shutdown is too easy
>
> 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?
>
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> David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC
> dad at datix.2y.net www.datix.us
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