On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:14:06PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 15:09, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 13:57, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > 
> > > ObLinuxTriviaQ: Using one standard unix command, hide a all of the
> > > files in a single user's home directory, so that they will be totally
> > > inaccessible until the admin decides otherwise. Answers on or off
> > > list, as you wish. 
> > 
> > mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /home/luser
> > for random but apropriate values of ext3, hda1 and luser.
> 
> hm... I've just realised that for this to work. /dev/hda1 needs to
> contain some random file system, but NOT the one that is mount at /home
> 
> Bugger, and I thought I was being smart... ;-)

And there I was about to award you an honorary Clue Bat and a cigar ;)

> There must be a better way.

This is the way I was thinking of. If you want extra Bastard points,
use a tiny, junk filled partition, or a dummy file system type where
every file is a synonym for /dev/random.
-- 
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