How to Make Files Accessible Only by Root?
I'm Using Ubuntu and I'm Here to Know Is There Any Way to Modify Access of a Specific Application So That It Can Only Root Has Access to It? Currently That...
I'm using Ubuntu and I'm here to know is there any way to modify access of a specific application so that it can only root has access to it?
Currently that application can be launched by general users but I want to make it so that only root can do this.
2 Answers
Make sure that the owner of the application is root and set the permissions such that only the owner can run it.
sudo chown root:root /path/to/application
sudo chmod 700 /path/to/application
If you look now at permissions with ls -l /path/to/application, you should see the following: -rwx------ root root, meaning that root can read, write and execute, and anyone else cannot even read that file.
Change the permissions of this applications as a root :
chmod 700 application-name
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