From: Shai Rosenfeld <shaiguitar@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T18:47:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Hiding source code

> I have written an app in Ruby for my company and I was the only one
> that had acess to read/execute it. I've hired someone to help me with
> daily work and that includes having him execute a set of those Ruby
> scripts.
> 
> Is it possible to allow him to only execute the code and not give read
> permission? All boxes are running Linux.

i may have overlooked something but what is wrong with using chmod?

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uchmod.htm

-rwx--x---  1 mksm youandfriendgroup  7264 2006-12-07 13:42 
rubyscript.rb

in the example above only you have all Read-Write-eXecute permissions, 
and you're friend only has eXecute permissions.
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