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What is the correct way to prevent non-root users from issuing shutdowns or reboots
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Let's say that you have set up a multi-seat system for use in a school or library, allowing GDM to launch multiple X sessions to run simultaneously with different users/keyboards/monitors. By default in Debian/Ubuntu in Gnome, you don't have to be root to shutdown or reboot. But this means any user…
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pklocalauthority is deprecated You need systemd with logind and polkit. Available actions You should look at Add rule First start monitoring system messages, so we can see if our new rule works: Then create file (in javascript). In this file we add …
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