Friend asks: I would like to make an app to ask for authentication before launching. I can do that on MacOS via creating an encrypted disc image and put the app in there, and windows has robust third party tools for it. But how would you go about it on Linux, especially since it’s a .deb (that gets auto-updated all the time via its repo) and not an appimage/flatpak? Others need access to the user account, but I want to restrict that one app. Creating a different user account for it is out of the question btw, since you can still change the password for that user via the primary admin account. Also, I don’t want to be running full VMs that take forever to boot to use that one app. Is there any simple way to lock an app under Linux?

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    3 hours ago

    It depends on how smart the users are. But if an account has admin then… that account can already do everything. You could zip the binary and password the zip?