Shutdown klutz problems

[Thomas Eriksson]

On 05/11/2010 12:28 PM, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
> On 05/11/2010 11:38 AM, Thomas Eriksson wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 05/11/2010 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:22 AM, David Rosenstrauch<darose at darose.net>  wrote:
>>>> On 05/11/2010 01:06 PM, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running Xfce 4.4.2 on a CentOS 5.4 server. The server is a critical
>>>>> enterprise level server. Twice now fumble fingers here has hit shutdown,
>>>>> instead of, logout. It is very, very embarrasing. (And the third time
>>>>> I do it, I may get my butt kicked.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to modify the exit utility so that it will give an extra
>>>>> prompt
>>>>> for shutdown? Can I substitute Gnome's shutdown prompt? Is there
>>>>> any modification I can make to keep this from happening again?
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>> -T
>>>>
>>>> I've had this happen too, and agree it's a bit irritating.  Don't know of
>>>> any workaround, unfortunately.
>>>>
>>>> DR
>>>
>>> We have the same problem here at home sometimes as our MythTV backend
>>> server is also my wife's desktop machine. It's the middle of the
>>> evening, she's tired and forgets to just log out and instead shuts
>>> down. Recordings ruined.
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>
>> One way to work around this, would be to use the "kiosk" interface
>> to limit the use of the shutdown functionality in xfce-session.
>>
>> Put these lines into /etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc
>>
>> [xfce4-session]
>> Shutdown=NONE
>>
>> The shutdown button will now be grayed out.
>>
>> If you still want to allow shutdown by users, it could be done from
>> the gdm screen or via sudo.
>>
>> -Thomas
> 
> Are there any other options to "Shutdown="?

A comma separated list of usernames and %groups (groups with
a percent sign) or the the words ALL or NONE.

-Thomas