Hi Folks,
I've been toying with the following kind of question.
Is it possible to setup a directory (say ./invis) such that it is impossible for anyone (even the owner) to do 'ls' on it, or 'cd' to it, thus not being able to find out the names of files and subdirectories under./invis, but such that if you name such a file or subdirectory explicitly than you (as owner) have access to it?
I.e. in order to access anything under ./invis you have to know its name. E.g.
cat ./invis/myfile
cd ./invis/mydir
Ordinary "chmod 000 ./invis" will not work, since this prevents all acess of any kind ("permission denied").
But I have a feeling that this sort of thing should be possible somehow (without having any idea of how to do it).
Any comments?
Thank, Ted.
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