[SOLVED]Disable Shutdown and Reboot from XFCE

Hi all
I would like to disable the shutdown and reboot buttons from XFCE (4.10) or to do disable shutdown/reboot systemwide.
I searched for specific xfce instructions and all i could find was using xfconf-query[1] and afaik it can only disable hibernate and suspend buttons
[1]http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=4781
Last edited by boriscougar (2012-09-11 21:51:22)

@nadman10
it had no change to remove my users from the power group
@2ManyDogs
Creating that file (/etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc) and setting which users could shutdown solved the problem
Thanks for your time

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[SOLVED] Run script on systemd shutdown and reboot

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mcmillan wrote:
My question: What is the difference between 'chmod +s halt' and NOPASSWD for shutdown as you suggested? I am not familiar with NOPASSWD.
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