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[Bill Wisse]

On Friday 12 March 2004 09:04, Lindenaar, D.J.W. wrote:
> This is all very interesting. The whole idea behind this linux (unix)
> philosophy is very well thought out and I wouldn't try and burn my
> fingers trying to change peoples mind about this. It's the simple truth
> that security experts should write security and accounting experts
> should write accounting software.
>
> So, what is there to be done. Simply make sure that everyone understands
> the way to go. The whole linux security is based on the idea that every
> user has his own account and there is no sharing done. Well the problem
> now is that someone is using his linux box in a Microsoft-like way,
> thereby degrading inherent security of the linux-system. What he wants
> is to secure _just_ his gnucash bookkeeping. The solution is already
> given so I'll just try to show how it could be done.
>
> 1. create a user (probably 'bookkeeper' or something)
> 2. move all bookkeeping info from the default user's home to
> bookkeepers' home.
> 3. tell KDE or GNOME to run gnucash as a different user (being
> 'bookkeeper') or change the command from /usr/bin/gnucash to su
> bookkeeper -c /usr/bin/gnucash.
>
> Like this it can be done. The OS asks the password for 'bookkeeper' and
> if correct fires up gnucash. If your son starts gnucash he doesn't know
> the password and so can't start gnucash nor can he delete the
> accountfile or anything.
>
> This is the way it is done the linux-way. It is pretty much exactly the
> same thing a MS-money would seem to do it except that the nice work done
> by the linux-kernel-team is probably much more secure than some hack by
> the accounting programmers.

Thank you very much Daniel for your information. I will certainly try this 
out .
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