Hi,

I'm just trying to change something on my machine to avoid users seeing directory on which they don't have any permission.
Could someone help me to hide to users what they don't have to see

For example, I'd like to hide directory with permission 0 for "other" to every people not in the proprietary group. I mean as if it just doesn't exist.


Thanks for your(s) answer(s).

I don't think you can hide a directory from view in the way you want.

If you want to hide directory "b", then the permissions on directory "a" that contains directory "b" needs to have restrictive permissions.

If directory "a" allows for all users to view it's contents, then there is no way to hide directory "b" from view. (It's contents will be safe though)

[ shut up already and answer the question! ]

Create a directory called, say "private" and make it's permissions rwx for owner and group (or whatever perms you require) but leave other blank or 0.

Inside the directory "private" place any directory structure you need and it will only be viewable by owner and group.

Hope this helps

chmod 700 directory

chmod 600 file

HTH,

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another way of avoiding to see it all the time is to rename it with .(dot) in front ie mv private .private + chmod 770.

As you propose, I tried to play with different combination of permissions and I finally find a way of treating my probleme.

I have created a second directory in which only allowed users could read and then I linked all the content of the first directory in the second one.

I gave rwx to the group 1 on the first directory and only --x to the group2
I then gave rwx to the group 2 on the second directory and none to the other groups
Finally I changed the rights of the content of the first directory to 775 so that the links of the second directory could work right for members of group2

Thanks for your help to a