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Operating Systems Linux sudo, root password Post 87995 by kduffin on Sunday 30th of October 2005 11:16:13 PM
Old 10-31-2005
Secure, X and gnome shouldn't be used in the same sentence, but setting that aside for now...

Are users logging into their own X session, or is there some "always logged" in root session that is running? If they are logging into their own X session, you could always force them to start the admin tools from CLI using a sudo - before it.

Why was a GUI dictated as the managment solution?
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

gnome-session-save

gnome-session-save(1)						   User Commands					     gnome-session-save(1)

NAME

       gnome-session-save - saves or terminates the current GNOME session

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-session-save [--kill] [--gui] [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-session-save can be used from a GNOME session to save a snapshot of the currently running applications. This session will be restored
       at your next GNOME startup session.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --gui	       Shows a dialog when the session is saved, and reports errors in dialog boxes instead of printing to stderr.

       --kill	       Terminates the GNOME session.

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Saving the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save

       Example 2: Terminating the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save --kill

       Example 3: Using the GUI to terminate the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save --kill --gui

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-session-sThe command-line executable for the application.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-session 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-std-options(5), default.session(5), gnome-smproxy(1), gnome-session(1)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    13 Jan 2003 					     gnome-session-save(1)
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