From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EuCFd-0004Re-O2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:16:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k04HDRlW027321; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:13:27 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k04H957O022263 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:09:05 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C981803D for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:09:05 -0600 (CST) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05869-02-2 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:09:04 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.52] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95DFB18037 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:09:04 -0600 (CST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <43bbfda0.52c312c6@vuk.kjorling.com> References: <20060104134358.GCQI29167.ibm61aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> <43bbfda0.52c312c6@vuk.kjorling.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: From: John Jolet Subject: Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:09:04 -0600 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k04H957O022263 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k04HDRmB027321 X-Archives-Salt: f9bed0d1-3028-4987-9b4a-0734762765cc X-Archives-Hash: 1ee26ed5047dec47efa2366f7027f706 On Jan 4, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 2006-01-04 08:07 -0600, john@jolet.net wrote: >> what you put was let wheel group run the shutdown command as >> vuk....you want to replace vuk with root. > > There we go, thank you! For the benefit of the archives, this is what > I got in the end and which works (\t is tab): > > %wheel\tALL=3D(root)\tNOPASSWD: /usr/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper > > 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 =20 box.....not saying that's a bad thing, but you need to know who all =20 is in it... > --=20 > Michael Kj=F6rling, michael@kjorling.com - http://michael.kjorling.com/ > * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * > * ..... No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings ..... * --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list