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

[Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com>]

Preventing flash does not prevent anybody of watching flash movies,
because you can download the flash movies using one of the many flash
downloader websites and then just play it with mplayer (for example).

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Qian Qiao <qian.qiao@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>