[K12OSN] Mozilla permissions

[Robert Arkiletian]

I also have problems with students browsing the net and not getting work done. 
I thought about changing the rights to mozilla but what about konqueror? They 
need it for a file browser in KDE so they need rights to it. I was wondering 
if there was some kind of command to disable or turn off the NIC that is 
connected to the external network? Physically unplugging the cable seems like 
a kludge especially if the server is in another room. 

Robert

On Thursday 22 April 2004 3:36 pm, Jack wrote:
> I had to to this with the instant messanger awhile back.  To find out
> where any binary file is do a which.
>
> [root at server root]# which mozilla
> /usr/bin/mozilla  <------------------thats your executable
>
> checking permissions shows root user and root groups owns this object
> [root at server root]# ls -al /usr/bin/mozilla
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 5955 Nov 15 01:29 /usr/bin/mozilla
>
> to make it unavailable to users do chmod
>
> chmod 770 /usr/bin/mozilla
>
> That should take care of them but it will affect everyone.  This is just
> a quick fix.  A more elegant solution would be to create a group called
> internet and place users who should be able to access the net in that
> group.  Then change the ownership of the mozilla executable to be owned
> by the internet group.  Once that is done you can take or give away
> internet access by placing users in the internet group.  Hope that
> helps.
>
> Jack
>