Yes you can, the execution permission can be controlled by group. Just split the students into 2 groups, allow and deny. Change the applications to permit only allow group execution and remove world permissions on the app. Review the commands chgrp, chmod.
Remember Macs now are just UNIX under the covers. ;) On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 05:27, Jaime wrote: > I work in a publish school in the US and am considering LTSP for our > younger students. The problem is, a significant number of them have > paperwork from their parents that forbid them from using the Internet > while allowing them to use computers in general. The way that we do > this on our Macintosh systems is to sort students into two > "workgroups." One of them doesn't allow the user to launch certain > programs, e.g. web browsers, FTP clients, etc. while the other one > does. > > I know that Unix doesn't usually have anything like this. I figured > that my best bet was to set their shells to pdmenu and then manually > install .xinitrc files in each account. I could probably script this, > but a savvy user could still use any text editor (or word processor > with a Save As command) to change this. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? I need to be sure that some > students can run Firefox while others can't. Any pointers are > appreciated. For background purposes, I've been running Unix and > Unix-like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc.) in various ways for > almost 9 years. > > Thanks in advance, > Jaime > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE > LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
