Restart/Shutdown buttons at logout: how to disable?

[Erik Harrison]

On 1/15/07, Rob <spamrefuse at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > Rob wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm running Fedora Core 6 with a RC of latest
> >> XFCE installed.
> >>
> >> If a user logs in via the main Xlogin screen,
> >> then upon logout appear three buttons:
> >>    [logout] [restart] [shutdown]
> >> which allows any regular user to restart/shutdown
> >> the PC. Is this a 'feature' of Xorg, or of XFCE.
> >> I would like to disable this?
> >
> > This is somewhat amusing, as it seems the more
> > common question on the list is the reverse:
> > people who have the restart/shutdown items greyed
> > out and can't figure out how to enable them.
> >
> > At any rate, you've apparently inadvertently
> > allowed your regular users to execute
> > xfsm-shutdown-helper (which usually lives in
> > /usr/libexec) as root using 'sudo'.
> > If you remove this ability, the buttons will be
> > disabled.
>
> Hmmm, now I'm quite confused.
>
> There nothing like "xfsm-shutdown-helper" anywhere
> in the /etc/sudoers file. So restart/shutdown for
> regular users should be disabled, but it's not.
>
> Now I am stuck at: how do I disable something that
> is supposedly already disabled?
>
> Any idea how to solve this problem?
>
> I'm running Fedora Core 6 with xfce4 4.3.99.2-1.fc6
> installed.

Assuming that you are running the standard Fedora config, then I'd
send a note to a Fedora list.

I recall Fedora/Redhat got a special helper, perhaps not using sudo?
I'm fuzzy on the details, perhaps Benedikt can help us out?


>
> Thanks for you help.
> Rob.
>
>
>
>
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