I got two promising responses from the VL Forums: kiosk mode and sudoers (see below).
There is no kiosk mode in VL 5.8 Standard. So this solution requires me to read the docs, create and configure a system kiosk.rc, then test. Too much work for Mr. Lazy Geek.
With a few presses of the keyboard in vi - visudo actually - I removed SHUTDOWN from the %users config line in /etc/sudoers. Ah ha! It works. I tried Quit/Shutdown. Victor, my Vector Linux PC, asked for a password. I typed my user password. Victor said, "No shutdown for you, peon." The next attempt showed restart and shutdown buttons grayed out. Problem solved.
Now if I can just get Victor to adjust his attitude. He's Cuban. Comes from an old Spanish land grant family. His father was an admiral in the Cuban Navy before the revolution. Hates Castro.
Tom P.S. Help from VL Technical General Forum. 1. Kiosk mode Read this: http://wiki.xfce.org/kiosk_modeYou need to add a /etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc file with the relevant bits you want only certain users to do.
2. Sudoers You can also disable them from /etc/sudoers. Find this line %users ALL=NOPASSWD:SHUTDOWN,DIAL,SERVER,HW1,MOUNT1,SGMAP,PDMOUNT,SMBMOUNT,WIFI and remove the SHUTDOWN and everything else you don't want them to do. #### ** This list is PUBLICLY archived. ** PLEASE don't post personal or sensitive information unless you wish for it to be in the public domain. To post to the list send email to frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The archive is available at //www.freelists.org/archives/frgeek-michiana/ You may unsubscribe or change your list settings by going to the list website at //www.freelists.org/webpage/frgeek-michiana
