Re: Way to make a file or directory password protected.

2003-09-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:37:41PM -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > Is he thinking of ACLs, perchance? I think I remember hearing that they > were being implemented in the 2.6 kernel... ACLs won't help you protect you against root users. And no, you can't always trust root. -- Ed Wilts, Mound

Re: Way to make a file or directory password protected.

2003-09-02 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 14:00:32 -0400 Javier Gostling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:54:22PM -0400, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > > zip -e secrets.zip plain.txt > > > > which will ask you for a password and put plain.txt inside > > a password protected zip file. > > But note th

Re: Way to make a file or directory password protected.

2003-09-02 Thread Javier Gostling
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:54:22PM -0400, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > zip -e secrets.zip plain.txt > > which will ask you for a password and put plain.txt inside > a password protected zip file. But note that the "encryption" used in ZIP files is extremely weak, and there are tools out in the net

Re: Way to make a file or directory password protected.

2003-09-02 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:36:09 +0530 (IST) Himanshu Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi folks! > is there any way to make a file or directory password protected. if there > doesn't exist such a utility is it possible to implement it by programs. > if yes,any hint? >

Re: Way to make a file or directory password protected.

2003-09-02 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
Way to make a file or directory password protected. > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:36:09PM +0530, Himanshu Arora wrote: > > is there any way to make a file or directory password protected. if there > > doesn't exist such a utility is it possible to implement it by programs. > > if

Re: Way to make a file or directory password protected.

2003-09-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:36:09PM +0530, Himanshu Arora wrote: > is there any way to make a file or directory password protected. if there > doesn't exist such a utility is it possible to implement it by programs. > if yes,any hint? gnupg is usually installed by default and

Re: Way to make a file or directory password protected.

2003-09-02 Thread Ricky Boone
> hi folks! > is there any way to make a file or directory password protected. if > there doesn't exist such a utility is it possible to implement it by > programs. if yes,any hint? > please don't suggest me to change rwx permissions. Concerning what? Browsing thr

Re: Way to make a file or directory password protected.

2003-09-02 Thread NfoCipher
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 09:06, Himanshu Arora wrote: > please don't suggest me to change rwx permissions. So I'm guessing chown is out of the question too? -- NfoCipher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ChickenWare, LLC Co-lo or dedicated Linux box as low as $35/month - www.SpeedWorks.com -- redhat-list mail

Way to make a file or directory password protected.

2003-09-02 Thread Himanshu Arora
hi folks! is there any way to make a file or directory password protected. if there doesn't exist such a utility is it possible to implement it by programs. if yes,any hint? please don't suggest me to change rwx permissions. regards Himanshu Arora IIIT - Hyderabad Hyderabad (A