Installing software for only certain users

[Art Alexion]

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On Friday 25 July 2008 12:49:14 pm Donn wrote:
> On Friday, 25 July 2008 18:27:35 Art Alexion wrote:
> > Off the top of my head, I am thinking you could either play with
> > permissions,
>
> But doesn't [sudo apt-get install blah] just proceed as root putting
> software into all the users menus? How do you stop root :)

Yeah, but afterwords, you can go in and change the permissions of the /usr/bin 
executable.  I'd disable others, assign it to a certain group, and only add 
permitted to the designated group.

I have never tried it, and there may be a more elegant way to accomplish it, 
but, off the top of my head as I said, it should work.  You may want to edit 
the global menu if you also want to obscure it from other users.


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