From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Oct 30 23: 5:50 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4A637B401
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:05:49 -0800 (PST)
Received: from ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.20.3])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA00943E42
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:05:47 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au)
Received: from elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au (elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.18.41])
	by ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9V75fiB012508;
	Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:05:41 +1100 (EST)
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
From: Jacob Rhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
Organization: University of Melbourne
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ls shows hidden files when used by root
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:05:40 +1100
X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4]
References: <web-7011959@doruk.net.tr> <1036047216.3dc0d3702e561@imp.hq.dyns.cx>
In-Reply-To: <1036047216.3dc0d3702e561@imp.hq.dyns.cx>
Cc: "Ertan Kucukoglu" <ek@kalyonbilgisayar.com.tr>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Message-Id: <200210311805.40235.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:53, Michael Joyner wrote:
> Quoting Ertan Kucukoglu <ek@kalyonbilgisayar.com.tr>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > When I su to root or login as root from console. ls shows
> > hidden files, too. No matter I use "ls -a" or "ls" result
> > is same:

> per 'man ls'
>      The following options are available:
>      -A      List all entries except for . and ...  Always set for the
> super- user.

You could make an alias so ls actually does 'su normaluser -c "ls"'
Or you could just not use your root account for file management.

Regards,
Jacob

Jacob Rhoden            Phone: +61 3 8344 6102
ITS Division            Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au
Melbourne University   Mobile: +61 403 788 386

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message