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Confirmation of a multi-user application limits bug
Authored by: gshenaut on Feb 04, '04 07:34:40PM

If you want to deny access to some application except for a certain group
of users, create a new group (e.g., "grownups"), and go through the
/Applications directory changing the group of the executables to the new
group, and changing the mode of the executable to 750 (owner has
read/write/execute, group has read/execute, other no permissions).
If people not in the group do not have the ability to become superuser,
then they will not be able to start the application.

A simpler method would be to change the group to "admin" if it isn't
already, and then change the mode to 750; this will restrict access to the
application to those with administrative access to the machine.

Greg Shenaut



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Confirmation of a multi-user application limits bug
Authored by: climberbry on Feb 05, '04 10:17:15AM

There are many easy ways around this solution.



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