[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] use ConsoleKit instead of HAL for shutdown/reboot

[Paul Fox]

james wrote:
 > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:37:54PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
 > > so, can someone tell me (gently) why either of these techniques
 > > is better than simply invoking /bin/reboot or /bin/shutdown? 
 > > (other than the fact that those will work even if hal isn't
 > > running?)
 > 
 > Lets Sugar hop the privilege barrier in a controlled fashion.  We could
 > work around that entirely by blessing /bin/reboot or /bin/shutdown with
 > setuid.  ;-}

doh.  thank you.  that was very gentle.  :-)

paul
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