[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu (linux) vulnerabilty?? Comment please

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>:
> Thanks, much appreciated.
>
> 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.

In theory, you could setup a new user and group that has permissions  
from /etc/sudoers to only run firefox.

You could then setup a shortcut on your desktop to make firefox run  
using gksudo as this new user, although for the time being I really  
don't think its something to worry about too much.

M.
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