[ale] Forcing hidden files/folders to stay hidden

[Fletch]

>>>>> "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).


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