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10.4: Shut down, sleep, or restart from login window
Authored by: finne on Jun 21, '05 02:58:34AM

A scenario where you have a kiosk to use for different users could need the login screen, without physical access to the CPU: just Keyboard, Mouse and Screen.
The login screen can be set to ignore >console logins; its a hidden loginwindow.plist setting somewhere. I think bombich.com has some documentation on this. Perhaps the >restart etc logins can also be disabled in this way.
However you will need a third-party security tool to disable the shutdown dialog you get at pressing control-eject (or one of the key combo's that enter sleep/restart/shutdown mode direct).
But I think >sleep etc are unnecessary because there are GUI buttons for this already and if you can use >console you can then use the terminal commands to achieve the same.



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