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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:45:13
Message-Id: 201004261244.15039.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
2
3 > Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons --
4 > restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the
5 > action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication
6 > at all -- how do I fix this
7
8 Use the keyboard instead. You already have your hands on it to type your
9 password, no?
10
11 > seems like a big security hole to me.
12
13 To me it seems like rational behaviour. You tell it to shut down - it
14 shuts down. Or do you want Gnome to be like Windows and challenge every
15 action you give it?
16
17 --
18 Rgds
19 Peter.

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