How to remove the "shutdown, hibernate and suspend" options shown in the KDE start menu ?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • KDE

Issue

  • In RHEL6, the shutdown, hibernate and suspend options are shown in the KDE Kickoff menu.
  • We don't want normal users to be able to shutdown this servers. How can we remove these options from KDE start menu ?
  • How to customize KDE Kickoff menu?
  • How to switch off, globally, the ability to suspend the OS from the "kickoff"->"Leave" menu?

Resolution

  • Below mentioned steps can be used to disable shutdown, hibernate and suspend options that are shown in the KDE start menu.

    To Disable Shutdown and Restart options:

    • Open System Settings -> click on advanced tab -> Click on session manager -> Uncheck "Offer shutdown options"

    To disable hibernate and suspend options:

    • Edit /usr/bin/pm-is-supported script and comment all lines. After that add "exit 1" at the end of that file.

    Eg:

     #!/bin/sh
 #. "/usr/lib64/pm-utils/pm-functions"
 #help_options()
 #{
 #        echo "pm-is-supported [--suspend | --hibernate | --suspend-hybrid ]"
 #        echo
 #}
 #
 #ARG="$(echo ${1#--}|tr - _)"
 #
 #case "$ARG" in
 #        suspend|hibernate|suspend_hybrid)
 #                "check_$ARG" ;;
 #        help)   help_options ;;
 #        *)      help_options 1>&2
 #                exit 1 ;;
 exit 1
    • Then reboot the system to apply changes.

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