Restricting logout options?

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:02 PM, David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   My wife's desktop died and for the short term we decided to move
>> her account to my MythTV backend server box. I don't see much problem
>> doing this - it's almost done in fact - but one risk is that she or
>> the kid will make a mistake logging out where they hit one of the
>> shutdown options instead of just logging out. If they make that
>> mistake then recordings will get missed or broken up.
>>
>>   I'm wondering if there is something in the settings area that would
>> allow me to remove everything except a plain log out? The other 4
>> (shutdown/restart/suspend/hibernate) are all problematic.
>
> All these options require privileges. Most distros use policykit for
> this, so you can edit its configuration to not allow them for
> everyone.
>
> If it still works, make sure that sudo is not also configured to allow logout.
>
> ~David

Interesting. Thanks David. I'm Gentoo based and it's not installed so
maybe it's getting done differently here, but at least I've got
something to focus on.

Cheers,
Mark