Re: [gentoo-user] prevent users from shutting down while other users logged in

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:19:29 +0000, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:

> I often have the kids working on my main ~amd64 PC (XFCE, OpenRC,
> -consolekit) while I ssh into it doing some maintenance from an old PC.
> Often they shut it down without telling me first, so I loose part of my
> stuff. Is there a way to tell XFCE/elogind/PAM/lightdm/whoever to not
> allow shutdown from a regular user while another user is logged in? I
> understand that logind/systemd provides the system-inhibit [1] user
> command just for that, but I don't find the analogous for
> OpenRC/elogind.
>
> Basically I'd like that:
> - if there is more than one user logged in, either locally via lighdm
> or remotely via SSH, the shutdown XFCE button is grayed out. Once all
> users except one have logged out, the button is again available

Can you configure the shutdown/reboot command called by XFCE? If so, you
can set it to a script that checks whether anyone else is logged in
before either executing the shutdown or displaying a "Daddy's using the
computer" dialog.


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Neil Bothwick

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