Prevent other users from seeing the file.
In Linux, you can prevent other users from seeing a file by using the chmod command to change the file's permissions.
Other users are other users who belong to the file's owner group, and other users.
| Change file permissions to prevent other users from seeing the file. [root@lion root]# echo "test text" > /tmp/samptxt [root@lion root]# ls -l /tmp/samptxt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Mar 5 01:23 /tmp/samptxt ↑Create a file (samptxt) in the /tmp directory labeled "test text" [root@lion root]# chmod 600 /tmp/samptxt [root@lion root]# ls -l /tmp/samptxt -rw------- 1 root root 5 Mar 5 01:23 /tmp/samptxt ↑Use the chmod command to change the permissions of the samptxt file to 600 [root@lion root]# cat /tmp/samptxt test text ↑Use the cat command to view the contents of the read_only file [root@lion root]# su - nuy [nuy@lion nuy]$ cat /tmp/samptxt cat: /tmp/samptxt: permission. error ↑I'm trying to browse files as another user, but I can't see them due to permission errors. |