[Project_owners] Shutdown Mac/Linux OS

[Jesper Staun Hansen]

In graphical environments is a normal user (read: non root person) 
allowed to shutdown/halt through for example Gnome. But I am not sure 
how Gnome does it.
But then you would have to find out how xfce does it and how kde does it 
and how...


Jesper

Didier Ernotte wrote:
> In Mac OSX (which is a Unix system), and Linux, there is a command 
> named "shutdown" or "shutdown now" most likely in "/sbin" to shutdown 
> the system. I'm pretty sure that you must be logged as "root" (super 
> user) to execute it. I don't know how you can grant your extension to 
> have root privilege to execute the shutdown. You can always create a 
> script that call the shutdown command, and give root privilege to 
> whoever runs the script, but that a big hole in the security of the 
> system.
>
> Didier
>
> */InBasic <inb.cor at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>     hi
>
>     As i don't have so much experience using Linux or Mac OS please
>     help me to find out shutdown commands in these two OSs
>
>     In windows platform there are too many ways to turn
>     off/standby/hibernate System,
>
>     In my extension (Auto Shutdown - InBasic)
>     <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5452> i use :
>
>                     var process = Components.classes["*@
>     mozilla.org/process/util;1 <http://mozilla.org/process/util;1>*"]
>                                            
>     .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess);
>                     process.init(*DLL or ExE Path*);
>                     process.run (false, *args*, args.length);   
>
>     to send shutdown command as args to "Command Prompt" or windows
>     API (shell32.dll  or  PowrProf.dll , ... ),
>
>     if any body know similar way for shutdown/Hibernate/Standby Mac or
>     Linux Please reply,
>
>
>     Any help will be appreciated,
>     InBasic
>
>
>
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