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Version4

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Wednesday, October 22nd 2003, 1:39am

Locking individual folders

Is there a way I can lock individual folders inside my directory so that every time I want to access them I have to provide my password?

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Wednesday, October 22nd 2003, 4:52am

thats a good question, i dont know and i have wanted to know how to do this.
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Wednesday, October 22nd 2003, 12:37pm

If it is everytime, I do not think so.

In theory you could add a group with password and change the owner of those file with root and that group. So for accessing that group you will need to give a password.

However I do not think that KDE is aware of such things.

If your files are really valuable, that is not a good way, as you still could access the files from Live-CDs, Rescue-CDs, Knoppix and similar.

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Wednesday, October 22nd 2003, 4:47pm

An encrypted partition maybe the better way for such things...

you can create such a partion in a normal file, and mount it via loopbackdevice. Everytime you try to mount this partion you will have to enter your passphrase.
And this single file can be easyly backupd and restored ;)
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Wednesday, October 22nd 2003, 6:33pm

I think it would be a good thing to have this kind of functionality in KDE, as a quick way to lock important files. The partition thing sounds like it would work but I have no idea how to do that. I was thinking somethinga long the lines of right clicking on the folder you want to lock, go to properties and clicking on an option "lock forlder" and maybe have another option "change password" if you want the access pass to be different from you account password.....

How can you get in touch with the KDE developers for a request of this kind??

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Wednesday, October 22nd 2003, 8:47pm

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Original von Version4

I think it would be a good thing to have this kind of functionality in KDE, as a quick way to lock important files. The partition thing sounds like it would work but I have no idea how to do that. I was thinking somethinga long the lines of right clicking on the folder you want to lock, go to properties and clicking on an option "lock forlder" and maybe have another option "change password" if you want the access pass to be different from you account password.....

Maybe using an ecrypted zip file works.

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How can you get in touch with the KDE developers for a request of this kind??

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