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Great Idea, But....
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
Great Idea, But....
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 ;-)
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