Hiding Shutdown/reboot in logout dialog and possible security issue

[Anders Bruun Olsen]

Hi Israel,

Fair enough, sometimes it can be difficult to get the message across in
text, but as long as we get there in the end right? :)

Running "lxsession-default quit" produces the same logout menu as
lxsession-logout, which means that it also shows the shutdown/reboot
buttons.

And yes, choices are what makes free desktops awesome! :)


2014-07-14 15:29 GMT+02:00 Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com>:

>  Hi Anders,
> I misunderstood you, I thought you meant the shutdown buttons in lightdm.
> But, you are meaning the logout dialog.  It was unclear to me what you
> meant.
>
> I am sorry for misunderstanding you, now I see!!!  Thanks for your reply!
>
> You may be able to edit the shutdown menu, to simply log out the user,
> though you may be right, there could be no way to do what you are looking
> for.
> I made the exec bold...
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Shutdown
> Name[zh_TW]=關機
> Comment=Shutdown or Reboot
> Icon=system-shutdown-panel
> Exec=*lxsession-default quit*
> NoDisplay=true
>
>
> But I expect, that if you can do it easily with XFCE, then that is the
> proper choice for your scenario.  It is always so wonderful to have
> choices!!
> We can run the same OS with different DE for different needs!
>
> Thanks for mailing us back.  It is a good lesson to me, that I need ask
> more questions to understand much better what someone is talking about
> SPECIFICALLY :)
>
>
> On 07/14/2014 07:49 AM, Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
>
> Hi Israel,
>
>  I have no idea how you got that from what I have written. My question
> has nothing to do with starting X. That is not a problem at all. The
> problem is that the logout menu shows the shutdown/reboot buttons, which I
> do not want unprivileged users to see. The logout menu is a part of LXDE,
> not the login manager (lightdm or slim). In particular the buttons are a
> part of the lxsession-logout package.
>
>  Having researched LXDE a bit more, it does not seem possible, and it
> seems that Lubuntu is not really an option for running a terminal server,
> without modifying code, which I do not want to do. I'm gonna go with XFCE
> instead. There I can set a policy with polkit, which will at least grey out
> the shutdown/reboot buttons (rendering them unclickable). Thanks for your
> replies and suggestions :)
>
>
>
> ...
>
>
>  --
> Anders Bruun Olsen
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>
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
>


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Anders Bruun Olsen
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