Restricting users from playing games

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:35:37PM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to restrict the users in a company from playing
> games (KDE), but the VP should be able to. :-)
> 
> What is the best/easiest way to do this?
> 
> I've been thiking of putting the VP in her own group, lets
> call it vp, and do a chgrp to vp on the games, with an addi-
> tional chmod o-rx.
> 
> The only drawback I've come up with (which I've not tested
> if this is the case), is that when upgrading KDE it will in-
> stall the games in the group wheel again. Can this be pro-
> hibited in some way, that is, when upgrading kdegames, it
> will install those games in the group vp instead of wheel?

You might find the dm(8) and dm.conf(5) man pages interesting...

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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