From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmMy1-0004ZH-1z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:24:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57F60E0777; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com (mail-bw0-f227.google.com [209.85.218.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150A9E0777 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so1157024bwz.34 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:24:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=3enA0GU9Wo0gHKMNJkpoKtcPKogDO+jx7Zp+HXwOL/w=; b=eX2u5ModKOyRPAVQazDDIO2liDQZJjBhgwStM2L4va1BLk2ClBmoPKzRY2AILYmeHU NBAK28oRCAo+GOeGMP0NsHbmQtIing+NDh6z1/TUgu3y8/CxyyV5QWrooA9oYZ8JVxJP nLuIDHZxriSDCpBvjqGBYDlJQA5nunc7alRWs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=ox/M/ytu5vSx2eu4cAJ3hTvXyD9FYeT2wAVKuB4ptb8matgcxjYYBWodFyVXsUZakH izt3uR7K+vSueF5Ms3qa9Zj3BrcRv2XW258oQdczS+FG2COHoNTiVOev6iQFQAPZbAbO VaEpVpj8/t26msYL8d2/Oulq7KZm7RhUP9eCM= Received: by 10.204.32.209 with SMTP id e17mr2896997bkd.84.1252740253560; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (93-42-80-114.ip85.fastwebnet.it [93.42.80.114]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 35sm1198184fkt.16.2009.09.12.00.24.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:24:09 +0200 From: Massimo Gengarelli To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How would I disable Flash (oand other things) for a single account? Message-ID: <20090912072016.GB18318@lechuck> References: <5bdc1c8b0909111724u6f9870fei7a1a97d9894b04ca@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0909111724u6f9870fei7a1a97d9894b04ca@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 50ca245a-d342-4ab7-b7bb-f872c85ffd7f X-Archives-Hash: 24d453c730748128aedc70840089d92f Probably it's not the best solution (and it's easily revertable), but you may try disabling Javascript in Firefox (or whatever browser your user will use). Another solution (but I don't think it will work) is to chmod /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so to -rwxr-x--- (0750) and then change it's ownerships to root:video (or another group you may want to create). On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:24:23PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Is it possible to shut off all multimedia stuff for a single account? > It's doesn't have to be securely off, just off, so if it cannot be > done by meddling with group membership then doing something in a root > owned bash file that executes when the user logs in even that's fine > with me. (Uh - even I don't know much about what Linux/Gnome does when > a user logs in so I'll get to learn a bit also!) > -- _ * Massimo Gengarelli ~0 (_| * Computer Science student @ http://www.unibo.it |(_~|^~~| * http://massitm.sohead.org <-- my personal, outdated website TT/_ T"T * Kiss your keyboard goodbye!