[OpenAFS] Hidden directories in AFS?

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:44:41 -0700


Tom Reinhart <rhino_tom@hotmail.com> writes:

> In conventional Unix, I can set a directory to "drwx--x--x" permissions
> and then create subdirectories which users can access by name.  This is
> useful because no one can access files they don't know the name of.
> However, I've just migrated to a new system that uses OpenAFS, and I
> can't figure out a way to accomplish this.  I tried the obvious thing of
> setting the ACL to just "r", but apparently without the "l" permission,
> nothing else works.  Is there any other way to do this?

No.  I'm afraid AFS doesn't support this.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>