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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:03:02
Message-Id: 200901131933.29930.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access by Mike Kazantsev
1 On Sunday 11 January 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
2
3 > If blocking every possible user is too much trouble or you wish to
4 > block just firefox, but not wget to http port for _all_ users (not the
5 > same case as emerge from root) you can write a simple SUID wrapper for
6 > firefox binary, which changes group to restricted one (but leaves uid
7 > and home unchanged),
8
9 Is this like creating a symlink to the original FF binary which you have moved
10 somewhere else? Can you please explain?
11
12 > then launches true firefox binary, to which only
13 > that group has access.
14 --
15 Regards,
16 Mick

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