Any user can restart

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Catalin David
<c.david at jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Well, my problem is not so easy to understand... but i'll give it a try.
>
> Imagine this: you work on something, you don't save, take a break, you
> lock my screen, someone else comes to the computer, tries to login,
> can't guess your password and decides to switch user, this taking him to
> the login screen. There is a magic button on the low-left corner
> allowing the user to restart, shutdown without any need of password or
> so. You lose all your work.

If they are standing there - they can push the power button or pull
the power cord.   No defense against that....
There are several different window manager login screens like gdm
(ubuntu default) kdm etc, and I'm sure one of them has the setting you
are looking for,  but I think it's a waste of time...

Brian