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Bug 103253 - RFE: gdmgreeter needs a shutdown option
RFE: gdmgreeter needs a shutdown option
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other other
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
Trevor Curtis
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-01-13 02:06 UTC by Havoc Pennington
Modified: 2005-01-24 23:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Havoc Pennington 2003-01-13 02:04:01 UTC 
Bugzilla-Product: gdm
Description:

  Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74163
  for the original bug report.




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-01-12 21:04 -------

Reassigning to the default owner of the component, jirka@5z.com.
Comment 1 R P Herrold 2003-01-13 03:22:04 UTC 
Havoc moved my bug over from the RH bugzilla -- the gdmgreeter
shutdown can leave fielsystem damage behind.

Problem:  There is no filesystem safe way for gdmgreeter to halt
(shutdown) the server host.  The end user has to log in, and sudo or
su to root, and execute a halt. -- not something most admins want to
allow an unrestricted right to end users to do.

It seems that /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf needs an option stanza for the gdm
daemon host selection panel to offer a Shutdown (possibly only for
authorized users), or for gdmgreeter to add a shutdown option -- here,
permitting authentication against the PAM handled passwd/shadow file,
and being a better way to handle the matter.

For some reason (probably simply historical), it is present with
gdmlogin already ...
Comment 2 George Lebl 2003-01-13 08:05:19 UTC 
remote logins never have the shutdown link.  This is because mostly
you don't want remote hosts to shutdown/reboot the machine.  Local
ones should.  Is this LOCAL (non-xdmcp) logins that don't have the
shutdown option (this should be handled in the same way for both
gdmlogin and gdmgreeter)
Comment 3 R P Herrold 2003-01-13 08:45:57 UTC 
I will test a local non-xdmcp version, but I anticipate that it has
the shutdown option available (As I recall, there is an option to make
it appear or to be concealed).

But we presently have the option about 'allow configuration' in the
case of a xdmcp login, to appear on the login screen (a root type
function) on tab 4 of gdmconfig - The ability to select a shutdhwon
when the IP connected from is 127.0.0.1, even though through a chooser
offering, seems a similar thing to the configuration item.
Comment 4 George Lebl 2003-01-17 18:41:49 UTC 
I'm now thoroughly confused.  So you WANT a shutdown option for XDMCP
logins?
Comment 5 Brian Cameron 2005-01-24 23:47:53 UTC 
I'm closing this bug.  Allowing shutdown from XDMCP logins does not make 
sense and this bug hasn't had any activiity for 2 years.