On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Andrea*s Jackie Klaura < andreas.klaura@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/12/2013 02:51 PM, Andrea*s Jackie Klaura wrote: > [snip] > > > > The problem: > > * I have to somehow deactivate the "Suspend", "Restart" and "Shutdown" > > options in the login screen. > > * This has to be done in CLI mode, as I have to change this on many > machines > > > > Tried out solutions: > > * As far as I could figure out gdm-simple-greeter would be the programm > > I'd have to tweak. But changing options in /etc/gdm/custom.conf does not > > change anything (as if this file would be ignored). > > * Another thing would be to set the > > /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_restart_buttons option to true through > > gconftool-2. But this option also seems to be ignored. Several posts on > > the web point to this being a bug which is fixed in RHEL but not CentOS. > > * I also tried to limit access to all the poweroff, reboot and halt > > commands through pam.d so that only root would be allowed to shutdown. > > This did not work either. > > * I even tried to rename the /sbin/reboot command (and therefore > > deactivate all the different links pointing to it). Still clicking the > > buttons still lead to a shutdown (although at some point it got stuck, > > but the system was not reachable any more). > > > [snip] > > solved. > > sorry to have bothered you, but somehow setting the gconf key > /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_restart_buttons does work. > > as i looked over it once more with a colleague setting it as mandatory > did work. i don't know what is different, because i was sure i did do > that before. but well, so far it worked on several systems. > > so sorry to bother you all with that. > Thanks for sharing your solution. > > in any case someone else stumbles upon this problem, my actual solution > now is rather simple: > > gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf \ > /gconf.xml.mandatory -t bool -s /apps/gdm/simple-greeter \ > /disable_restart_buttons true > > Interesting. Out of curiosity, I found [0] with the information you provided. [0] http://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/configuration.html.en#greeterconfiguration > > cheers, > jackie > > > -- > Andrea*s Jackie Klaura > University of Vienna > Institute of Theoretical Chemistry > Waehringerstr. 17 > A-1090 Vienna, Austria > tel: +43 (0)1 4277 52756 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 // _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos