Installing software for only certain users
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Jul 26 15:13:34 UTC 2008
Toby Dickenson wrote:
> The menu items get automatically removed if the user does not have
> permissions to execute the appropriate program. So suppose you want to
> limit amarok.... create a new group called "amarokusers", and add the
> users who should be able to access it. Then:
>
> $sudo chgrp amarokusers `which amarok`
> $sudo chmod o-rwx `which amarok`
>
> That should leave you with:
>
> $ls -l `which amarok`
> -rwxr-x--- 1 root amarokusers 20380 2008-04-18 18:47 /usr/bin/amarok
>
> You might need to redo that if amarok gets upgraded.
That's so cool. I love learning new stuff about this OS after a decade of
use!
--
derek
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