"Kirk Vander Meulen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I'd like to write a script that limits internet access to certain > hours of > the day. This seems like it should be simple but I'm not very > experienced
Its actually not that simple because its fundamentally going against the design of the computer. Modern computers and operating systems are designed to allow multiple users to perform multiple tasks 'simultaneously' without getting in each others way. Thus it's relatively easy for an application to change its own access but much more difficult for an application to change a user's access and even more difficult for one user's application to change access for every user or for the machine as a whole. It's designed to be that way. Now there is one loophole, which is the administrators account (which is root on Linux/MacOS or nearly every user on XP! I dunno if Vista has closed this gaping Windows security hole or not?). The administrator's account should not be used for day to day usaage (XP defaults not withstanding) but for administewring all other users and the machine itself. Thus to do what you need the application would need to run as administrator and would need to tweak the operating system networking setup. Neither of these are particularly trivial in a well set up machine (and for good reason). So the question is, do you want to lock down a single application? Or a single user? Or the whole computer? And which OS are you using? HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
