securing gnome logoff

[James Wilkinson]

Tristan Wibberley asked about securing the "shutdown" and "reboot"
options from within GNOME. Once that was sorted, the next problem was
re-enabling them just for the login screen: 

> Is there a way to enable shutting down and rebooting from the login
> menu, but not from the logoff menu (as the login menu can be secured to
> require the root password)?

Erm: why not use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get into a text terminal, login, and run
"reboot" or "poweroff"?

You could create a shutdown user with sudo rights to run just those two
commands without requiring a password.

James.

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