Password Protect One Folder inside Another Folder

Wade Smart wade at wadesmart.com
Sat Nov 12 16:43:40 UTC 2005


11122005 1003 GMT-5

I know this sounds odd, but, Im working on getting the local school to 
see the benefit of using linux over windows. I have been asked to set up 
something to present to the administration. That's all great but they 
have some things they want me to be able to do - one of those is to 
password protect a certain folder or file.  

I just recently asked about permissions and ownership and that was very 
helpful - and I received lots of links to great information. However, if 
you just want to password protect one single folder inside say your home 
directory - how can you do that?

Would you just create a new owner and then use a script similar to the 
one on the UbuntuGuide for Open As Root - you would just create Open as Bob?

Wade




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