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Can I restrict a user to use special programs?

Is it possible to add a user and restrict him to run special programs? For example after this user logs in, he can only open Firefox to use Internet and no other programs can be run by this user. For ...
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How can I create and grant a normal user with root privileges?

I'm wondering how to create and grant a normal user (for example, named 'sybase') with root privileges? I found useradd, adduser, and passwd to be useful, but are there any other files to modify to ...