Any user can restart

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Jun 20 23:28:38 UTC 2008


PleegWat wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> PleegWat wrote:
>> 
>>> Addendum: Doesn't seem to work for suspend/hibernate from the user
>>> shutdown button. All of them work in the greeter (login screen).
>> 
>> You mean, users can still suspend/hibernate, no matter what you do? 
>> Seems
>> reasonable to me.  After all, when you turn on the machine again, your
>> session is exactly as it was before hibernation.
> 
> Well, only users who can login can do it, since it does disable in the
> greeter.
> 
> The possible issue is that any services running in the background will
> pause, such as torrent clients and other background downloads.

Oh, right.  I don't do that sort of thing.  Background downloads are for
when I'm in the office...  I still have limited bandwidth at home.
-- 
derek





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