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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:16:42
Message-Id: E9C7EAC2-8854-40AE-8102-373E139EE01E@jolet.net
1 On Jan 4, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote:
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3 > On 2006-01-04 08:07 -0600, john@×××××.net wrote:
4 >> what you put was let wheel group run the shutdown command as
5 >> vuk....you want to replace vuk with root.
6 >
7 > There we go, thank you! For the benefit of the archives, this is what
8 > I got in the end and which works (\t is tab):
9 >
10 > %wheel\tALL=(root)\tNOPASSWD: /usr/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper
11 >
12 > I can now shut down and reboot from within the GUI, and it doesn't
13 > seem to have opened any obvious other security holes.
14 >
15 well, except ANY user in your wheel group can shut down your
16 box.....not saying that's a bad thing, but you need to know who all
17 is in it...
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20 > Michael Kjörling, michael@××××××××.com - http://michael.kjorling.com/
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Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce Michael Kjorling <michael@××××××××.com>