Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Holger Macht <hmacht@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun 26. Oct - 11:38:55, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> Vincent Untz wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Not always the user is root, and not always it is a portable.

Just disable "suspend" for the usual user through
/usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.policy

Indeed, a YaST module for all PolicyKit configurations would be nice.

Regards,
        Holger
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