Public bug reported:
Some applications allow users to install addons and plugins for
applications like firefox, thunderbird, amarok. Many of these are also
available as Ubuntu packages. To prevent interference between user
installed addons or plugins and system wide installed version, Ubuntu
should have an option to disable users installing addons and plugins for
applications themselves. Also simply for preventing users installing any
new functionality themselves in tightly controlled business environment,
this is crucial.
Several different implementations can be done. Applications can check
somewhere in /etc wheter a user is allowed to install addons or plugins.
Implementing functionality involves also changes to applications
offering users to install addosn or plugins. The system can set the
addon or plugin directory to readonly. Probably the latter is not
preferred with new users etc.
Changing this setting which shall be stored somewhere in /etc also
required proper documentation and admin tools.
Being able to manage addons and plugins centrally via apt-get and
friends provides sysadmins the ability to have more control over the
offered functionality.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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System wide setting disabling users to install addons and plugins
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131550
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