xfsm-shutdown-helper sudo error messages

[J. Lewis Muir]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>I don't want to allow users to shutdown or reboot the computer when
>>they log out of their desktop session.
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>>By default, the radio buttons on the logout dialog box are grayed
>>out -- this is the behavior I want. But every time a user logs out
>>I get a syslog entry from sudo saying "command not allowed" where
>>the command is a full path to xfsm-shutdown-helper.
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> I believe this is normal.  xfce4-session runs this (using sudo) to
> check to see if it should enable the shutdown/reboot radio items.
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>>So my guess is that Xfce is invoking this command via sudo. I don't
>>want to add an entry for this to my sudoers file; I don't want to
>>allow users to shutdown or reboot the computer.
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> Sure, then don't.  Why do you think you need to?

I don't want to see the sudo errors in my security log.

-lewis

>     -brian
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