Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday, 2008-10-29 at 13:27 +0100, Holger Macht 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.
> >
> > 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

When you provide a GUI to it or a holdmyhandstepbystep manual.

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

Indeed!

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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