On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 15:47 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 07:16 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 14:02 +0530, "Rahul Tidke" wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > > I wonder about these buttons on gnome desktop; do we really need these
> > > buttons on login screen? Reboot and shutdown allowed before login for any
> > > user??
> > >
> > > Thank You.
> > I find these buttons very useful. My machine double boots. Sometimes I
> > make a mistake and allow the machine to boot to the wrong OS. Using
> > these buttons I can correct the situation. Other times I boot my machine
> > and I realize before I login that I really wanted to shutdown the
> > machine.
>
> "your" machine => single-user environment.
>
> > But I confused by your question. How does this extra functionality hurt
> > you or anyone else?
> Do you expect arbitrary users to switch off an unattended ("free")
> machine in a lab's or an office's machine pool, a classical workstation
> scenario?
I assume said machine does not have an on off button. We have this situation
in the lab at the college; 100 of them. Asign warns people not to do what
you think they should not do. And it mostly works.
It is especially important in this environment because we have
multi-machine programs running on machines that look like they are just
sitting there.
> Q: How to disable these buttons permanently?
>
> Ralf
>
>
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