Shutdown is too easy

Arnaud yoda_81fr at yahoo.fr
Wed Jul 20 19:01:54 CEST 2005


Thanks a lot, it's works now!!!


-----Message d'origine-----
 De : David A. De Graaf
 Envoyé : 20.07.2005 17:38
 

>On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:08:58AM +0200, Jean-Fran?ois Wauthy wrote:
>  
>
>>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...
>>
>>    
>>
>
>You have diagnosed my problem perfectly.  Thank you, Jean-François
>Wauthy.
>
>I had configured sudo to let me do everything (pretty dumb, I know):
>    dad     ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
>
>This includes whatever command is used by the shutdown cartoon.
>However an attempt to exclude shutdown failed to restrict it:
>    dad     datium=PASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, NOPASSWD: ALL
>
>I either misunderstand the man page for 'sudoers' (which is the
>epitome of incomprehensibility), or the shutdown icon mysteriously
>uses some command other than /sbin/shutdown.  (Sometimes I really hate
>GUI interfaces!)
>
>In any case, I've removed all interventions with sudo and now XFCE
>shuts down as it should - by requiring a password.
>
>  
>

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