[K12OSN] Mozilla permissions

[Brian Chase]

Try using squid proxy server

Robert Arkiletian wrote:

>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
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>On Thursday 22 April 2004 3:36 pm, Jack wrote:
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>>I had to to this with the instant messanger awhile back.  To find out
>>where any binary file is do a which.
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>>[root at server root]# which mozilla
>>/usr/bin/mozilla  <------------------thats your executable
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>>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
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>>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
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