From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 04:24:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA05246 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA05241 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:24:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id EAA23436; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:24:24 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id EAA27187; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:24:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Geoffrey Robinson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I Hide Files? In-Reply-To: <362BDE75.33BBA55A@globalserve.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: >Is it possible to set a file or directory as hidden so that it won't show >up on ls or ls -alo but can be read written or executed if you know the >name? No. 'ls -a' will make files/directories show every time regardless of the user id. If you don't want certain people to look in a certain directory then use 'chmod' to keep them out. Remove group and other permissions. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message