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

["Qian Qiao" <qian.qiao@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 15:07, Michael Moore <mikem.unet@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I did a quick google for "linux parental control", turned out there
are a couple of solutions, each with their strengths and weaknesses
ofc.

If it's parental control that the OP is after, then he can have a look at them.

Then again, we are only guessing the OP's intention.

-- Joe

-- 
There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and
those who can't.