[ale] Forcing hidden files/folders to stay hidden

[aaron]

On Tuesday 14 May 2002 11:58, Fletch wrote:
> >>>>> "Charles" == Charles Marcus <CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com> writes:
>
>     Charles> Does anyone know if there is a system-level way of
>     Charles> forcing hidden files/folders to stay hidden for normal
>     Charles> users, even if they enable 'View Hidden Files' in their
>     Charles> preferred file manager?
>
>         Hidden files in *NIX are only hidden by convention.  There's
> nothing in the OS that's going to stop someone from accessing a file
> they have permissions for just because it begins with a `.' character.
>
>         Of course one might could do some trickery with LD_PRELOAD and
> a munged version of readdir(), but that would only stop casual
> browsing and not the determined (and borders on the kludgy).

...err...
  ... how about let's NOT do some trickery and just SAY we DID!  ;-)
 That way we can keep Linux freindly and free of the hidden viruses, 
spyware and other invasions of privacy that plague Micro$haft victims. 

peace
aaron




  


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