Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

[Michael Moore <mikem.unet@gmail.com>]

On 10:05 Wed 19 Nov     , Qian Qiao wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:54, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 19 Nov 2008, at 04:06, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> >>
> >> ...
> >> Why do you want to do this? ... I don't understand why.
> >> What is your justification for doing that?
> >
> > To prevent his kids from watching YouPorn.
> >
> > Stroller.
> 
> In that case, isn't putting
> 
> 127.0.0.1 ADDRESSES_TO_BE_BLOCKED
> 
> into /etc/hosts easier?
> 
> Or just set up a proxy.
> 
> Joe
> 
> -- 
> There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and
> those who can't.

No, perhaps not, considering the fact that there are so many sites with
pron. Maintaining such a massive hosts file is a disaster and worse still 
the solution is not fullproof. But then, FWIW such problems seldom have
foolproof solutions.

The idea of proxy is very valid(in particular the transparent proxy
implementation), mixed with mime-type handling could do the trick. What
complicates the situation slightly is that it is to be done for just one
user. I don't personally use proxy so not sure about the implementation
details. Perhaps somebody with the usage experience can provide a
detailed solution, once we are sure as to the reason for the question.

-- 

Regards,
Michael Moore <mikem.unet(at)gmail.com>
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