session management and shutdown

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Sat, 05, Jul 2003, Bernhard Walle wrote:

> Hello,

Hey Bernhard,

> if I try to shutdown with the newest version I get the error message
> that the system administrator ....
> But I already added /sbin/shutdown to sudo, the visudo entry is:
> bwalle  ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown
> with previous versions (where the option was in the settings dialog) it
> worked.
> sudo /sbin/shutdown works, too.

/sbin/shutdown is no longer used (had problems I was unable to fix).
Its now /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff and /sbin/halt (see the
xfce4-shutdown program). Also make sure xfce4-shutdown is not setuid
to root, or sudo will not be used.

> Regards,
> Bernhard

Benedikt

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