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How can I prevent others from seeing the contents of my home directory, except for the public folder?

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Mar 15, 20263866 views
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On Mac OS X, it's relatively easy to prevent people from seeing the files contained in your home directory: I'd like to perform a variation of that. I want it so that when people open /Users/stalepretzel, they only see one folder listed: Public. From there, I'd like to set the permissions of Public…

Error Output

$ cd /Users/stalepretzel; ls
Public
$ cd Public
All     the     contents     of
my      public  folder

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I'm afraid this isn't possible. A user can't access any file or folder anywhere in the tree of a directory for which he doesn't have read permissions. If the user does have read permissions for a directory (and all its superdirectories), he can and …

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