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Old 05-11-2008, 07:37 AM   #1
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profiles for users


hi friends...

suppose i have 2 users on my linux machine

supppose i want one of them to always use firefox only and no other application...

is it possible to that??
 
Old 05-11-2008, 08:06 AM   #2
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no they can always install software in their home folder and use that software.

if you mean that you have system wide browsers....you can change the permissions of the relevant one to disable their rwx permission to that browser
 
Old 05-11-2008, 08:09 AM   #3
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no they can always install software in their home folder and use that software.

if you mean that you have system wide browsers....you can change the permissions of the relevant one to disable their rwx permission to that browser
thing is that..
i have an ltsp network set up...

and i have 10 users...but out of those 10, 5users should only be able to use vi editor and nothin else...

how do i do that??
 
Old 05-11-2008, 08:11 AM   #4
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Hi,

If you change the shell entry in the /etc/passwd file to point to firefox (full path and executable), firefox should be started when that user logs in (instead of giving him/her a shell) and after closing Firefox the user should be logged out. So change /bin/bash to /usr/bin/firefox.

I say 'should' cause I haven't tried this with a gui based program. It does work with non-gui based scripts/executables.

Hope this helps.
 
Old 05-11-2008, 08:41 AM   #5
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5users should only be able to use vi editor and nothin else...
Beware of the fact they can access the shell from within vi. If they type the vi commands
Code:
:set shell=/bin/bash
:shell
they will start a shell session and will have full access to the shell commands.
 
Old 05-11-2008, 08:57 AM   #6
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Hi,

If access to a shell is not wanted you can use rvim instead of vim.
It is a restricted version of vim that does not allow starting a shell, using shell commands and suspending.

Hope this helps.
 
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Hi,

If access to a shell is not wanted you can use rvim instead of vim.
It is a restricted version of vim that does not allow starting a shell, using shell commands and suspending.

Hope this helps.
hi friends
i tried changin /etc/passwd file for tat user as /usr/bin/firefox

user fails to login....m usin fedora core 6(k12ltsp)

plz suggest me some other way to do that
 
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You can try editing the users .xsession file to only run firefox.
 
  


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