On Tue 15 May 2018 at 06:20:17 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/14/2018 07:40 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Mon 14 May 2018 at 08:01:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>Only 1 of the four machines within arm's reach are physically > >>capable of connecting to the internet. Is there a way to block > >>internet access for members of one group - similar to how "dialout" > >>might have been used when connectivity was a 56k modem? > > > >AFAIK group dialout gives you access to the serial ports with their > >modems, and dip gives you access to ppp's configuration files. These > >enable you to configure and instigate connections, > > Was there a companion tool do a forced disconnect?
The same group could stop links as well as start them. But the easy way with a modem is for ANOther to just switch it off. […] > >OTOH it's easy to voluntarily block some browsers from being able > >to make non-local connections, eg: lynx -localhost > > I've not seen anything useful in that vein with SeaMonkey. > It defaults to giving web access with an option to later view only > local files. You could look for ideas in pages like https://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/15/how-to-turn-chrome-or-firefox-into-a-single-site-browser/ where your site would be localhost. Cheers, David.
