remove "shutdown" option from gnome system (not gdm!) menu?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Oct 5 16:40:46 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 10:47 -0500, Berna Massingill wrote:
> What I'm kind of wondering, though, is how any of this helps if users
> have physical access to the machine's power switch

One thing that springs to mind is to intervene (put something that
intercepts what the menus usually do), so that when someone does use the
shutdown option, they get a warning in their face that this is a
multi-user machine, and they should just log-out, instead, unless they
really need to turn off the box.  Then give them appropriate choices
(logout, reboot, shutdown).

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