I know there are permissions one can assign to certain files and folders, but this won’t come in handy if you need quick access to a file -and as User I often do- and don’t want to slow down getting root permissions. You know, just open-close-move on.
Is there a way, as user, to assign a password to a file or a folder? It would make the job a lot easier and more efficient.
Not sure why. You can simply ban anyone else from reading particular files or folders - the time taken to read the permissions is the same regardless of the setting. Adding a password would slow down access - in any case, if you ban anyone else from reading your files, then by default they are all covered by your user password.
Yeah, I know, but I actually need to share my own session with other users, so it would be useful.
Thanks anyway!
If you can’t password protect it, I guess changing the permissions to be accessible only to you is the next best thing.
Are passwords stored on the system level, or is it up to the application?
Why don’t you encrypt them? gpg is good for this.
Can Truecrypt handle individual files, or just directories?
I don’t know, but that might be another way to go, a TC virtual partition. It isn’t in the repos though.
Reading the OP again, I’m not exactly sure what these files are that lorenzobrion has in mind. Are they personal files, or system files? Is there a particular reason you have to share your session?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
If you use a file format that supports passwords this should be trivial.
For example, use OpenOffice documents and you can password-protect any of
them. When you open them OO.o will prompt you for a password as it is
opened; voila, you’re done.
Good luck.
On 09/02/2010 12:36 PM, lorenzobrion wrote:
>
> I know there are permissions one can assign to certain files and
> folders, but this won’t come in handy if you need quick access to a file
> -and as User I often do- and don’t want to slow down getting root
> permissions. You know, just open-close-move on.
> Is there a way, as user, to assign a password to a file or a folder? It
> would make the job a lot easier and more efficient.
>
>
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On 2010-09-02 20:36, lorenzobrion wrote:
> Is there a way, as user, to assign a password to a file or a folder? It
> would make the job a lot easier and more efficient.
None, except encryption.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Make a group that only has those users that you want to have access and make the file ownership to that group giving the group rwx or any combo of access you want.
when I needed this I made a trick and it was quite ok for me, assign the files to a user with permission only to that user, for example usersecret, than there was a kde application that allow to open the file or the folder as root or another user, so if you are logged as youuser, so right click>open as other user, insert user name usersecret (but if I remember well it was automatically inserted) insert password, click ok and the file or the folder is opened.
Hoping it will be useful 