Quoting Robert McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:48:58 +0100 > alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Would there be a procedure to use browser/s with a different 'user' >> password, with much lower privileges than the normal user, so that >> when browsing the 'user-low' being used is not allowed to download >> anything knowingly or not (without password)? Accepted that the the >> user-low is still using a browser which may have weaknesses. >> > > Yes. I just found this procedure by playing around so there may be a > better one. > > First you need to have another user to run firefox as, and you need to > tell the xserver that local users can connect to it (not just the user > who owns it) with: > xhost +local:
In theory, you shouldn't need to do even this, the gksudo command should work without needing to open up X to local connections. M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Group Co-Ordinator Thanet Linux User Group http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KEY: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFEA1BC16 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
