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From: John Rushford on 24 Nov 2009 18:39
Greetings,

I've installed FreeBSD 8.0-RC3 on a laptop and am trying to get the
'Restart' and 'Shutdown' buttons to work from the gdm-greeter. I
haven't had much luck with configuring the files shown below and was
wondering if someone here might have an idea on what's needed.

thanks
John

/usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf:
[daemon]
HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h now
RebootCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now

[xdmcp]

[chooser]

[security]

/usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf:

<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration
1.0//EN"
"http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">

<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->

<config version="0.1">
<define_admin_auth group="operator" />
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.eject">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.unmount-others">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.hibernate">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.suspend">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
</config>

From: Dominic Fandrey on 25 Nov 2009 08:30
John Rushford wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've installed FreeBSD 8.0-RC3 on a laptop and am trying to get the
> 'Restart' and 'Shutdown' buttons to work from the gdm-greeter. I
> haven't had much luck with configuring the files shown below and was
> wondering if someone here might have an idea on what's needed.

Find out as which user gdm is run and add that user to the operator
group.

> thanks
> John
>
> /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf:
> [daemon]
> HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h now

It's "-p now" on FreeBSD.

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From: John Rushford on 25 Nov 2009 16:13
On Nov 25, 6:30 am, Dominic Fandrey <kamik...(a)bsdforen.de> wrote:
> John Rushford wrote:
> > Greetings,
>
> > I've installed FreeBSD 8.0-RC3 on a laptop and am trying to get the
> > 'Restart' and 'Shutdown' buttons to work from the gdm-greeter.  I
> > haven't had much luck with configuring the files shown below and was
> > wondering if someone here might have an idea on what's needed.
>
> Find out as which user gdm is run and add that user to the operator
> group.
>
> > thanks
> > John
>
> > /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf:
> > [daemon]
> > HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h now
>
> It's "-p now" on FreeBSD.
>
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> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

Dominic,

Thanks, I had actually added root and gdm to the operator group
earlier but these functions still do not operate in gdm. I installed
kdm and it's working fine, so I'm giving up on gdm.

John
From: Dominic Fandrey on 26 Nov 2009 07:49
John Rushford wrote:
> On Nov 25, 6:30 am, Dominic Fandrey <kamik...(a)bsdforen.de> wrote:
>> John Rushford wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>> I've installed FreeBSD 8.0-RC3 on a laptop and am trying to get the
>>> 'Restart' and 'Shutdown' buttons to work from the gdm-greeter. I
>>> haven't had much luck with configuring the files shown below and was
>>> wondering if someone here might have an idea on what's needed.
>> Find out as which user gdm is run and add that user to the operator
>> group.
>>
>>> thanks
>>> John
>>> /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf:
>>> [daemon]
>>> HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h now
>> It's "-p now" on FreeBSD.
>>
> Thanks, I had actually added root and gdm to the operator group
> earlier but these functions still do not operate in gdm. I installed
> kdm and it's working fine, so I'm giving up on gdm.

I made some blind shots there, I'm an XDM user. I wouldn't have
answered at all if I hadn't seen the "shutdown -h now".

Regards

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