Privacy

[Josh Sled]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 15:04, Lindenaar, D.J.W. wrote:

> 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.

FWIW, there's also the program 'xsu' and 'gnomesu' which allow a GUI
mechanism to ask for the password.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsu/

% gnomesu gnucash -u gnucash &
# dialog box appears...

It's already in portage, on gentoo at least...

...jsled

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