Jameson Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have been told to display a warning message whenever a person enters a > particular, "secure", directory. Of course, on first thought this is a > lame idea since people can access a directory without using "cd".
A fairly clean solution that might do what you want is to restrict access to the directory to a particular group. Then, force people to run a simple setgid program that prints the warning message on stderr and starts a shell (or, perhaps, a program specified on the command line). Having the shell prompt change to reflect the "secure" status might be a nice touch here. This has the advantages that (1) no one can access the directory without seeing the message; and (2) you can log accesses to the directory, if desired. An obvious disadvantage is that it complicates casual access to the directory; for example, if I'm running an editor and want to get a file from the secure directory, it could be pretty awkward. Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
