User specific hosts file in Mac OS X

Solution 1:

unfortunately the answer is no. Here's another answer to a very similar question. It's not the same question, but the answer is the same:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5007150/62653

As a side note, you might be interested in this blog post. It won't solve your problem, but is quite interesting nonetheless (the domain name for this address, and the blog title is a bit unfortunate, but it is a genuine blog entry on cocoa dev).

http://niggazpullintriggaz.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/how-i-managed-to-edit-etchosts-without.html