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Restrict Reboot on Login Console Screen

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JAZZnSAX

Technical User
Feb 28, 2001
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US
I have a ticket open with RedHat, but wonder if anyone else has resolved this.

RedHat 8.0
On the console (GNOME) login screen there are three menus at screen's bottom: Language, Session and System. Under the System menu are choices to "shutdown" and "reboot" the computer.

I want these GONE from GNOME ;-)
I only want reboot / shutdown accessible by 'root' at login, whether command line or GNOME (GUI).

I did rename halt, reboot and poweroff in /usr/bin ... per RedHat's recommendations ... and the "shutdown" choice is gone from that console/welcome screen. But, "reboot the computer" is still there. Arggggggh.

Thanks!
 
I might be wrong, i haven't used RH8 in a while, but i'm fairly sure there's a way to configure the login screen (GDM)......scout through the menus (prefrences somewhere?) for something to configure login screen :)
 
If you can't configure the login screen the way you want it you *CAN* do the following:

Find the exectubles for reboot, shutdown, and poweroff

At a shell prompt:> which reboot
:> which shutdown
:> which poweroff

Then issue the following commands at the shell prompt:

chmod 0700 <full path for>/reboot
chmod 0700 <full path for>/shutdown
chmod 0700 <full path for>/poweroff
chown root.root <full path for>/reboot
chown root.root <full path for>/shutdown
chown root.root <full path for>/poweroff
 
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