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From: John Jolet <john@jolet.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:27:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B6FB0BC3-FEDF-49EE-9D65-8FD9C9D88C4D@jolet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43bc048a.208be871@vuk.kjorling.com>


On Jan 4, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote:

> On 2006-01-04 11:09 -0600, john@jolet.net wrote:
>>> I can now shut down and reboot from within the GUI, and it doesn't
>>> seem to have opened any obvious other security holes.
>>
>> well, except ANY user in your wheel group can shut down your
>> box.....not saying that's a bad thing, but you need to know who all
>> is in it...
>
> Yes, I am perfectly aware of that and it is also what I want. Of
> course my account is the only one besides root that is in the wheel
> group, but that's my own headache. :)
>
sorry, too much time spent pointing out the obvious to management  
lately :)
> -- 
> Michael Kjörling, michael@kjorling.com - http://michael.kjorling.com/
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      reply	other threads:[~2006-01-04 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-04 13:43 [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce brettholcomb
2006-01-04 14:07 ` John Jolet
     [not found]   ` <43bbfda0.52c312c6@vuk.kjorling.com>
2006-01-04 17:09     ` SOLVED: " John Jolet
2006-01-04 17:23       ` Michael Kjorling
2006-01-04 17:27         ` John Jolet [this message]

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