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Limiting Plug-Ins

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Limiting Plug-Ins Mitchell Verter 12 Jun 17:23
  Limiting Plug-Ins Michael Natterer 12 Jun 19:19
  Limiting Plug-Ins Michael Schumacher 12 Jun 20:02
   Limiting Plug-Ins Mitchell Verter 12 Jun 22:57
Mitchell Verter
2013-06-12 17:23:22 UTC (over 11 years ago)

Limiting Plug-Ins

Hi,

I would like to limit the plug-ins available for GIMP users. For example, I do not want them to be able to open or save TIFF or DICOM images.

What is the best way to constrain the filetype plug-ins available to the end user?

I've been looking around the plug-ins folder but am not sure whether this is my best place to intervene.

Thanks Mitchell

Michael Natterer
2013-06-12 19:19:31 UTC (over 11 years ago)

Limiting Plug-Ins

On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 13:23 -0400, Mitchell Verter wrote:

Hi,

I would like to limit the plug-ins available for GIMP users. For example, I do not want them to be able to open or save TIFF or DICOM images.

What is the best way to constrain the filetype plug-ins available to the end user?

I've been looking around the plug-ins folder but am not sure whether this is my best place to intervene.

Simply remove the plug-in binaries, that's your only option short of modifying the source.

--Mitch

Michael Schumacher
2013-06-12 20:02:02 UTC (over 11 years ago)

Limiting Plug-Ins

On 12.06.2013 19:23, Mitchell Verter wrote:

What is the best way to constrain the filetype plug-ins available to the end user?

Depends on how elaborate you want this to be:

- removing the plug-ins is one option - restricting access to them with ACLs or file permissons is another - moving them to different folders and then doing the same as above is yet another option
- moving them to different folders and then distributing different configurations according to users groups (e.g. http://www.gimp.org/man/gimp.html#sect4) is yet another

I've been looking around the plug-ins folder but am not sure whether this is my best place to intervene.

Depends on which of the options above make you go "how...?" or "ah, of course...!", respectively.

HTH,
Michael
Mitchell Verter
2013-06-12 22:57:44 UTC (over 11 years ago)

Limiting Plug-Ins

Where would be the wisest place to intervene in the code to limit the extensions? Basically, I will just check to see if the extension matches a certain list of permitted extensions.

I would guess somewhere in config/gimppluginconfig.c or plugin/gimpplugin.c?

Thanks for all your help, Mitchell

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote:

On 12.06.2013 19:23, Mitchell Verter wrote:

What is the best way to constrain the filetype plug-ins available to the end user?

Depends on how elaborate you want this to be:

- removing the plug-ins is one option - restricting access to them with ACLs or file permissons is another - moving them to different folders and then doing the same as above is yet another option
- moving them to different folders and then distributing different configurations according to users groups (e.g. http://www.gimp.org/man/gimp.html#sect4) is yet another

I've been looking around the plug-ins folder but am not sure whether this is my best place to intervene.

Depends on which of the options above make you go "how...?" or "ah, of course...!", respectively.

--
HTH,
Michael

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