[DM-MUG] Per user site blocking via hosts file

[kristau]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Chris Tyrrell <tyrrell69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all.
>
>  Is it possible to have a different hosts file in effect for each
>  user? Because the file resides at /private/etc/, it's not immediately
>  obvious to me how to modify the host mapping on a per user basis.
>  'Course, the nose on my face isn't immediately obvious to me either,
>  but that's another story.

The hosts file is system-wide, so you really can't change it for one
user w/o effecting all users.  Any script or utility which attempted
to do so would run into big problems when more than one user logged in
at a time.

The bigger question is, "What are you trying to accomplish?"  If you
provide a description of your goal, someone may know of a utility
which fits the bill.  I suspect you are trying to filter out certain
Web sites?  Have you tried Parental Controls on the account(s) in
question?  If we are talking about a network, then perhaps a filtering
proxy would be a better solution.

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