Re: Hardware setting or firewall setting

From: Mike (mmccaws_at_netscape.net)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: 26 Apr 2004 07:07:18 -0700

Thanks everyone

I'm always amazed at how many ways something can be done in Linux

Mike.

Ralf Bader <rjbader@t-online.de> wrote in message news:<c6blcb$ps1$05$1@news.t-online.com>...
> Mike wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I would like to either turn off the nic for when my kid's logged in
> > under their login or set the firewall settings for a paticular user to
> > not send or receive traffic or limit their traffic to a few
> > destinations. Being that the machine has one nic, and as far as I
> > know, that the os doesn't differentiate one user's traffic from
> > another, I don't see how I can use the firewall settings.
> >
> > I need some enlightenment as to what my options I may have.
>
> man iptables.
> Something like
> iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 501 -j DROP
> should disable the user with ID 501 from sending packages.
>
>
> Ralf

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