On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 04:07:54PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > On a computer connected to a router, which in turn is connected to the > internet (more or less constantly), how do I restrict some users from > accessing the internet. > > The lan is actually in a small community office. A couple of computers > are for the staff, but a third is set aside for a number of public users > to use. It is running Ubuntu. I was asked how to restrict internet > access from that computer (for example, users should be allowed to > connect to the internet only during certain hours of a day) on a user by > user basis. I am more familiar with Debian, hence the query here. > Apparently, they want the administrator to have free access, but > restricted access for other users on that computer. I have never used it before but you can take a look at the iptables owner match. http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html#TABLE.OWNERMATCH Hope it helps. -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C0 89FE
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