Session Management Proposal

[George]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:16:48PM -1000, Ray Strode wrote:
> Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> 
> > Why should such a user not be able to shutdown the computer? Imagine
> > a setup of computer labs. Those machines should always be running. In
> > our setup for example a machine that has been shut down would stop
> > responding to mon inquiries and so look like a machine requiring
> > administrator attention causing a system administrator to be
> > dispatched. Since the physical button are not accessible to users,
> > that machine would in fact be out of usage until the administrator
> > reboots it.
> 
> That's another reasonable case where users shouldn't be able to halt
> machines.  This case shouldn't be an issue on the session manager side
> of things, either, however, because the session manager is going to
> leave rebooting/halting the machine up to the desktop manager (and if there
> is no desktop manager then maybe use consolehelper).

Yes, and you already have to turn it off in the desktop manager if you don't
want rebooting/shutting down or whatnot ...

Come to think of it, if there IS a desktop manager and it disallows
shutdown/reboot, we shouldn't fall back to consolehelper even if possible,
I don't think ...

George

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