I think it would be great to know how to copy-inhibit files, if anything just for the sake of knowledge. With Novell servers, you can copy-inhibit files, which is great to help protect files installed on the network.
On Saturday 23 February 2002 05:46 pm, you wrote: > On 23:09 23 Feb 2002, Lewi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:58:59AM -0500, rpjday wrote: > | > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Lewi wrote: > | > > it that possible to restrict file to not able be copying but still > | > > can be see the contents. > | > > | > not likely, since if someone can list the contents, they can always > | > just redirect the output to a destination file of their choice. > | > | i think so too, but just an idea if that possible if just restrict cp > | command to read file. > > What good would such a thing achieve? > > | just a homework from my master :) > > Just tell him "no". I guess you _could_ hack the cp source to implement > some totally arbitrary restriction. Not very productive. Or you could make > the file genuinely not publicly readable and owned by a particular user, > and then put a setuid or setgid command somewhere to access it. > > Cheers, _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
