Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>]

* Carlos E. R. [2008-10-26 11:49]:
> Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le dimanche 26 octobre 2008, à 11:38 +0100, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
> > > Vincent Untz wrote:
> > >
> > > > gnome-power-manager has some inhibit mechanisms. This means an
> > > > application can say "don't suspend" (eg, when you're burning a CD). And
> > > > the user can also control this with an applet.
> > > However, root should be able to control what power he gives the users
> > > over this. Root should be able to disable the ability of users to
> > > power off, reset, or hibernate the computer, or on the contrary, force
> > > an hibernation; and this regardless of what desktop the user is using.
> >
> > Sure, and root can do this via gconf (you can have mandatory settings,
> > or change the default settings in gconf).
>
> How?
>
> minas-morgul:~ # gconf-editor
> Cannot open display:
> Run 'gconf-editor --help' to see a full list of available command line
> options.

xhost +localhost (yes, it's insecure, but on a local workstation ...)
More secure: ssh -X root@localhost

We used to have 'sux' in former times for exactly that reason, I don't
know where and why it's gone.


Regards,
Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development
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