On Monday, 01 November 2004 10:34, shogunx wrote:
> Set the path of the students who are allowed network access (what, are
> these parents just wishing that their children will become garbage
> collectors?) to include a "quarantined" directory, /usr/local/bin for
> example, that includes the mozilla, netcat, ngrep, nmap, etc. binaries,
> while excluding that from the path of the students without access.  Then
> chmod the users .profile so they cant change it.  You can do it with chgrp
> on the binaries also.
>
Bad idea, any half smart kid would figure out how to change the path after 
login (it's just an environment variable) and that you can give full paths 
anyway.

Chgrp'ing the binaries is the only right way to do it.

Ciao
A.J.
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