xfsm-shutdown-helper sudo error messages

[J. Lewis Muir]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 5/23/05, J. Lewis Muir <jlmuir at anl.gov> wrote:
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>>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>>J. Lewis Muir 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?
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>>I don't want to see the sudo errors in my security log.
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> 
> I suppose we could parse the output of sudo -l to determine if the
> shutdown options are available. That sets off some alarm bells for
> some reason to me. Probably because it breaks the authentication
> abstraction that allows the session manager to be customized to
> whatever system the OS has for getting extended privs.
> 
> Regardless, it could probably be done. However it will not be done in
> the stable series, so for now you'll just have to live with the
> messages in your log.

OK.

Or even just an env var to tell it not to do the sudo test.

But I would have thought the kiosk mode change I made would have worked. 
If I have set "Shutdown=NONE" for xfce4-session, why would it still be 
doing anything w/ sudo?

Thanks,

-lewis

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>>-lewis
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>>>    -brian
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