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Great Idea, But....
Authored by: jecwobble on Feb 05, '03 02:17:19PM

I think what the author is saying is that when his daughter wants to use the iPod, he reloads it with only the G rated playlist.

While this is a great hint, I only share my iPod with my wife. But, both my children have user accounts on my computer. I have also set up iTunes to share a common library of MP3s with all users. Does anyone have any ideas on how to limit access to certain songs within a library? Right now, I have set up both kid's accounts to access only specific applications and games- iTunes is not one of them, but my son would probably like to listen to music (if I let him know it's possible....).



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Great Idea, But....
Authored by: Eravau on Feb 05, '03 06:31:47PM
You could make the "off limits" songs be owned by a group that the kids aren't a part of. Create a new group called something like parents with NetInfoManager. (If you need more information on that let me know.) Then go to the files that are "off limits" and make sure their owner is jecwobble (or whatever your local username is), the group is parents (or whatever you call your new group of you and your wife), and that the permissions on the files allow reading only by the owner and group. For example:
cd directory_with_off_limits_music
chown jecwobble off_limits_files
chgrp parents off_limits_files
chmod 0640 off_limits_files


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Great Idea, But....
Authored by: ret on Feb 05, '03 11:36:00PM
Excellent suggestion. My criticism (although I'm loathe to use that word) is a more general one about the hints posted here (and elsewhere) that require use of the chmod command. For the life of me I don't understand why they are always posted with the octal value for the permissions. Given the number of Unix newbies who use these hints, why don't more people post the marginally longer, but far more understandable chmod u=rw,g=r,o= ... syntax? If you're unaware of it, you can set permissions on files by describing who (u for user, g for group, o for other), how you're changing them (+ to add, - to remove and = to set explicitly), and the permission(s) you're adding (r for read, w for write, x for execute). You can combine the parameters as well, eg chmod ug+rwx,o=r myscript.sh, or perhaps chmod +x myscript.sh. man chmod for more. Just my 2c worth of beef ;-) RET

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