From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262226AbUBXLLY (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:11:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262228AbUBXLLY (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:11:24 -0500 Received: from users.linvision.com ([62.58.92.114]:9137 "HELO bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262226AbUBXLKo (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:10:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:10:41 +0100 From: Erik Mouw To: Gautam Pagedar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: can i modify ls Message-ID: <20040224111041.GA25565@bitwizard.nl> References: <005601c3fd75$1c681510$8c01080a@crayii> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005601c3fd75$1c681510$8c01080a@crayii> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: Harddisk-recovery.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:33:00AM +0530, Gautam Pagedar wrote: > i am new to this mailing list, so please bear with me if i don't follow > certain rules till i get used to it. I am a research student and currently > working on a project to tweak the working of 'ls' command depending on my > requirement. I have observed that 'ls' show ALL THE FILES and DIRECTORIES in > a particular location even though a user has no access rights to it. I want > to hide all > such files for that particular user. It already works like you expect it to do: erik@zurix:/tmp/test >mkdir a b erik@zurix:/tmp/test >touch a/c erik@zurix:/tmp/test >ls -lR .: total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 erik users 72 Feb 24 11:49 a/ ./a: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 erik users 0 Feb 24 11:49 c erik@zurix:/tmp/test >chmod -r a erik@zurix:/tmp/test >ls -lR .: total 1 d-wx--x--x 2 erik users 72 Feb 24 11:49 a/ ls: ./a: Permission denied erik@zurix:/tmp/test >chmod -x a erik@zurix:/tmp/test >cd a a: Permission denied. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands