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Message #119978
[Bug 1457411] Re: Nautilus shows all of the files in / even for normal users
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** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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Title:
Nautilus shows all of the files in / even for normal users
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Right now if you go to `/` you would still see all of the files there.
If your logged in as root, I can understand that, but as a normal
users, its just an invitation for some users to go around and possibly
break things.
Currently users see this:
bin
boot
cdrom
dev
etc
home
initrd.img
initrd.img.old
lib
lib32
lib64
lost+found
media
mnt
opt
proc
root
run
sbin
srv
sys
tmp
usr
var
vmlinuz
vmlinuz.old
By some minor tweaking one could turn that into this:
home
tmp
That can be achieved by adding a file in the root folder `/.hidden`
with the following content:
bin
boot
cdrom
dev
etc
home
initrd.img
initrd.img.old
lib
lib32
lib64
lost+found
media
mnt
opt
proc
root
run
sbin
srv
sys
usr
var
vmlinuz
vmlinuz.old
Every file you put in - that’s in the same directory as the file
itself - will be hidden.
Now, I also hide the home folder, made a link of my $username folder,
and paste that in the root dir /. I also made a Applications folder
with desktop files in them. We could link it to
/usr/share/applications/. But the icons are not active for some
reason? I copied the .desktop files to a folder in my home dir, and
activated that, We could do something like that?
I think that this is how all the `/` folders should look like for
normal users in the future:
Applications
$username
tmp
screenshot
http://i.stack.imgur.com/8FyXD.png
This is just an idea.
I wrote about this years ago:
- http://www.eurobytes.nl/tutorials/how-to-hide-files-and-folders
And to did others:
- http://www.webupd8.org/2015/05/how-to-hide-files-and-folders-in-your.html
- http://ubuntuguide.net/another-way-to-hide-files-folders-in-ubuntu
- http://askubuntu.com/questions/243805/hide-certain-files-and-folders/
- http://askubuntu.com/questions/143315/how-to-hide-files-and-folders-in-nautilus/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-37.51~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt9
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-37-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu May 21 11:15:35 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-18 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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