Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 13:54:05 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restricting users from playing games Message-ID: <20030514125405.GA66857@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3EC0F4A9.8090402@cs.umu.se> References: <3EC0F4A9.8090402@cs.umu.se>
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On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:35:37PM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to restrict the users in a company from playing
> games (KDE), but the VP should be able to. :-)
>
> What is the best/easiest way to do this?
>
> I've been thiking of putting the VP in her own group, lets
> call it vp, and do a chgrp to vp on the games, with an addi-
> tional chmod o-rx.
>
> The only drawback I've come up with (which I've not tested
> if this is the case), is that when upgrading KDE it will in-
> stall the games in the group wheel again. Can this be pro-
> hibited in some way, that is, when upgrading kdegames, it
> will install those games in the group vp instead of wheel?
You might find the dm(8) and dm.conf(5) man pages interesting...
Cheers,
Matthew
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