I have a fedora workstation pac connected to the living room tv, running some server duties in the house and playing games over streaming and on the tv it is connected to.

I want to forbid reboot/shutdown from the UI. I want only sudo in the terminal to be able to do that.

I’m no certain of the best way to do that. I cant go just hiding the options on a per UI basis as I’ll be playing whack-a-mole until I’m dead. Instead, Id like things like plasma and steam to understand they aren’t permitted to make that request, but if they try anyway, the OS just ignores them.

  • TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml
    1·
    7 hours ago

    You’re barking up the wrong tree and fucking up your life by doing this.

    Split the streaming/gaming duty to a different device that can be operated in the way the user expects.

    Wherever you disconnect shutdown signals from will be relied upon by something down the road and you’ll end up with a weird messed up broken update when that happens.

  • limelight79@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 day ago

    Uh keep in mind they could just unplug the computer. Software limits are good, but if they really want to shut it off, they’ll find a way.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
    7·
    2 days ago

    You’d probably want to look into dbus or PAM.

    Or google, how people fixed that they were not able to shutdown from GUI. That’s a more common occurence than limiting it.

  • Ooops@feddit.org
    14·
    2 days ago

    I don’t know if Fedora (or plasma) do things differently but the normal default is that you need sudo to reboot/shutdown/etc.

    Then on basically all distros using systemd this behavior is modified via logind session and polkit. So the first thing to look at would be if a shutdown rule exists in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ that allow users in a certain group to shutdown/reboot in the first place.

    Mine looks like this:

    /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-shutdown.rules
    polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if ((action.id == "shutdown" ||
    action.id == "reboot") &&
    subject.isInGroup("wheel"))
    {
    return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
    });

    So every user in the wheel group can do it without password prompt. Without this UI elements for shutdown/reboot will try assuming they have the right but simply fail.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works this plus the display manager too if there is one since it runs as root. if you’re using gnome, there’s a gdm.conf somewhere in /etc where you can disable the power/reboot.

    • Cysio@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      1 day ago

      at least in my experience GNOME does not override systemd-inhibit but rather just silently fails the shutdown

      • CameronDev@programming.dev
        2·
        24 hours ago

        Weird. I’m sure i have seen a popup saying “shutdown was inhibited” that let me force it. I’ll have a try later today

        Edit: gnome gave me the prompt, and then silently failed to shutdown. So yeah, perfect for OP.