Re: (OT) exec nonreadable shell scripts

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:24:33PM +0000, Rick wrote:
> sorry for off-topic, but I've been banging my head trying to set up shell
> scripts that can be executed but not read by a user.  

Not doable.

The shell needs to read them in order to execute them.

(Well, you could do something REALLY evil like suid wrappers switching
them to a user id that could read the script.... but that is ugly.)

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