On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:00:50PM +0200, Robert Sebastian Gerus wrote: > > Expected results: > nothing or a ls-like list of files
Get a UNIX history book talking about the introduction of opendir ages ago and the discussions why allowing open(2) and read(2) can be allowed or not. In summary, you have to have read access to the directory and file names should not store sensitive information. Other users could have seen the file otherwise anyway. Also keep in mind that most filesystems internally do this anyway. To protetc against basic forensic, nothing but overwriting the directory (which can be quite difficult :-)) helps. Joerg
