How can i keep password for a folder?

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I want to keep password for my important folder where my all the documents are kept so how can i keep password for it?

cannot enter password

Do you mean, how you can password protect a folder where all your documents are kept? Do you want to create a private encrypted folder? If so see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory — user68186, Jun 05 '14 at 19:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '14 at 19:50

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If you want to stop people accessing a file or folder, encrypting the file with a password is a great way to do it. First either open Archive Manager and click New, or right-click on the folder you want to protect and press 'Compress'.

Then chose a compression format you can encrypt (e.g. .7z, .arj, etc) _{(under Other Options)}. Using 7zip compression is good, as then you can encrypt the file list to. Then type the password you want to use.

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Then you can add files:

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Then you have an encrypted archive with your files secure inside - though it can still be deleted...

You can also hide the compressed file by adding a . to the beginning of the file name, so it only shows when you press Ctrl+H.

answered Jun 05 '14 at 19:50

Wilf

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There is password option but i cannot enter password in it – Freddy Jun 07 '14 at 05:15
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@wilf how did you create that emoticon its so sreative and very attractive – agha rehan abbas Jul 10 '14 at 18:52
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@agharehanabbas - I did create/modify some emoticons a while ago using the GIMP - you can do neat animated ones using GIF or a similar format. If I didn't create this one, I probably found it on Google Images :D. To create one, you can using paths, the circle select tool, gradients etc - stroke selection/path can be used to draw the outlines. – Wilf Jul 10 '14 at 19:10
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thanks i will experiment this thing i am very curious about it :D – agha rehan abbas Jul 10 '14 at 19:35

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '14 at 19:06

By default, your first line of defense is linux permissions and your regular password.

sudo chown your_user:your_user /home/your_user/some_directory
chmod 700 /home/your_user/some_directory
chomd 600 /home/your_user/some_directory/*

use 700 for sub directories as well (600 for files).

That will not protect against sharing your account , or someone with physical or root access.

To protect from root / physical access you have to use encryption. You have several options for encryption from a private, encrypted home directory to gpg to cryptkeeper . cyptkeeper is a graphical tool and will encrypt the directory.

Note: as long as the directory is decrypted is is accessible to root and other users with the appropriate permissions.

How can i keep password for a folder?

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