On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:44 AM, rajkumar vbalakrishnasamy > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> I need software to lock file or folder in linux or i need any file >> or folder locking shell scripts or command for my project so that file could >> not be accessed by the users. > > There is no locking. > > Only blocking access to read the folder/file. > > chmod u-r foo > > will block folder foo from access to user under which this command is run. > > If you want to block access to file/folder to everyone other than the user > who created the folder, you can do this. > > $ chmod go-rwx foo > > Read up on chmod. If you want advanced features then chattr. > > If you want to learn about locking you can read flock and lockf but it > has nothing to > do with your question. > > -Girish
chattr +i file makes the file immutable Thanks baskar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
