Re: prevent a dmg from being seen
Re: prevent a dmg from being seen
- Subject: Re: prevent a dmg from being seen
- From: Jim O'Connor <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:48:54 -0900
Thanks, Jim.
I'm attaching with a mountpoint and with nobrowse turned on. However,
some users have gotten around that.
Thanks,
Jim
On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Jim Luther wrote:
There's no way to completely keep people from seeing a file system
volume other than obfuscation.
So, the best you can do is:
1 - mount(2) the volume with the MNT_DONTBROWSE flag (with mount(1),
use the nobrowse option). That tells Mac OS X GUI code to not show
the volume in the usual places (on the Desktop, in the sidebar,
going to "My Computer", etc).
2 - Mount the volume somewhere besides /Volumes. That makes it less
likely that the user will navigate to the volume and see its contents.
In any event, the volume will show up in terminal to the mount(1)
command, and if the user uses "Go to folder..." in the Finder and
enters the path to the volume, they'll see its content.
Once the volume has been seen by the File Manager or by the new
CFURL code (SnowLeopard only), it will also show up in the lists of
volumes returned by FSGetVolumeInfo and the CFURL volume enumerator
(if the kCFURLEnumeratorSkipInvisibles isn't passed).
- Jim
On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Jim O'Connor wrote:
Is there a way to keep a dmg from being seen by the user who has
show hidden files set to true?
Thanks,
Jim O'Connor
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