Re: [rox-users] some initial questions

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:33:56AM +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:
[...]
> The Gnome panel offers a choice of logout or shutdown (halt) even when I am
> logged in as non-root. I assume that the shutdown is only offerred when
> no-one else is logged in. However it seems the default settings with RH7.3
> are to permit the ordinary user to do a shutdown. Afraid my memory is poor,
> so I may be mistaken, but when I setup the normal user account after
> installing RH I don't recall specifically setting this as an option. I'd
> suspect, though, that the relevant 'shutdown' commands would work.

Actually, the easy thing to do it to create a new app that just says
"Really Halt?" and runs 'halt' if so. Dead easy! Something like:

	if rox.confirm('Really Halt?'): os.system('halt')


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