Dave,

What I mean is the shutdown option that you have at the GUI screen before login. In other words, I would like to prevent anyone from shutting down my system before logging in.

Thanks!

On Wed, June 27, 2007 16:42, Dave Augustus said:

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 10:33 +0200, Web and Co sprl - P. Derwael wrote:

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Hi list,

Can someone tell me how to disable (or remove) the "shutdown" button that appears on the console under CentOS 5 ? Thanks a lot

By *console* are you referring to the GUI screen for logins? the GUI screen after you login ?

Dave

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Jim,

That does partially do the job: when you click on shutdown or reboot, it simply restarts the X server.

I can live with that, but I would prefer a neater solution where those options are no longer available/visible

Thanks !

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From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Wight Sent: mercredi 27 juin 2007 17:25 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Disabling shutdown button

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 16:58 +0200, Web and Co sprl - P. Derwael wrote:

What I mean is the shutdown option that you have at the GUI screen before login. In other words, I would like to prevent anyone from shutting down my system before logging in.

I've done a similar thing on Fedora systems by putting the following in /etc/gdm/custom.conf

[daemon] HaltCommand= RebootCommand=

I don't have any CentOS boxes with a GUI screen to check it on, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was equally applicable there.

Jim

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2007/6/27, Web and Co sprl - Patrick DERWAEL pderwael@webandco.be:

Jim,

I'm not Jim... still, does under top panel, Desktop, Administration, Authentication, unchecking Actions box fulfill your wishes? I'm on a localized Debi[li]an Gnome from gdm now... sorry if not.

(thx Jim, you save for me lot of gas).

Greetings, Stan Păpușă warming globally.

Web and Co sprl - Patrick DERWAEL wrote:

Ooops, sorry for that …

There is no “Action” box under Desktop, Administration, Authentication

I’ve done the following changes in /etc/gdm/custom.conf (just in case it helps…)

[daemon] HaltCommand= RebootCommand=

[greeter] SoundOnLogin=false SystemMenu=false ConfigAvailable=false ChooserButton=false

According to the documentation, this should do it, but that’s not quite the case…:-(

Any other clue ???

All you need is the SystemMenu=false statement as above and two small modifications to another file: /usr/share/gdm/themes/CentOSCubes/CentOSCubes.xml

The two modifications are:

1. Change line 102 from: <show modes="console"/> to: <show type="reboot" modes="console"/>

2. Change line 118 from: <show modes="console"/> to: <show type="halt" modes="console"/>

The lines above both of these should have an item tag refering to the appropriate reboot/halt button. Then restart the gdm. The shutdown and reboot buttons should no longer appear.

Erik