Ubuntu can be shutdown from lock screen without password

[Jatin khatri]

On Wednesday 29 July 2015 12:17 PM, Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:53:27 +0530
> Jatin khatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 27 July 2015 04:06 PM, somebody.mozfr wrote:
>>> Le 27/07/2015 12:28, Jatin khatri a écrit :
>>>> On Monday 27 July 2015 03:33 PM, somebody.mozfr wrote:
>>>>> If someone has access to your laptop, he can shut it down by
>>>>> pressing the power button or removing the battery anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that's why it's not protected : it would not prevent anyone
>>>>> from shutting it down. And this shutdown is less dangerous for your
>>>>> data than a "hard reboot" with the power button.
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 27/07/2015 11:37, Jatin khatri a écrit :
>>>> thanks for your reply
>>>>
>>>> but it is strange ... it should not allow shutdown using soft button
>>>> ( top right corner) ..at least it should ask for password before
>>>> shutdown
>>>>
>>>> I'm totally agreed that it can be shutdown using power button without
>>>> any authentication ...that the different story
>>>>
>> any solution to this...??
> The reason that nobody has offered a solution to this is that it
> doesn't really exist. If anyone can physically get to your machine they
> can power it off anyway, and you would actually *want* them to do it
> this way, rather than holding the power button down or pulling the plug.
>
> You could take a look at the man page for systemd-inihibit(1) if you
> are running 15.04, and launch a program with that before leaving the
> machine, but it wouldn't prevent anyone with physical access to shut
> the machine down anyway. It would only prevent them from shutting down
> in an orderly fashion for a set period of time, and that isn't really a
> benefit for your purpose. If you still want to do it (and you
> shouldn't), try something like this:
>
> systemd-inhibit --what=shutdown --mode=block /bin/sleep 3600
>

ok,

thanks


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