Password Protect One Folder inside Another Folder

[Wade Smart]

11122005 1445 GMT-5

Thanks for that Al. It definitely has to be super simple to implement it 
in a school setting. A GUI is very important. Im starting to look at gtk 
programming. If I can learn anything at all Ill have to look into that.

Thanks.

Wade



Al Gordon wrote:

>On 11/12/05, Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
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>>11122005 1003 GMT-5
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>>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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>I realize you had some answers to this already.  However, something
>else to look at might be encfs.  It's in Universe.  Here's some info
>on it:
>
>al at hungan:~$ apt-cache show encfs
>Package: encfs
>Priority: optional
>Section: universe/utils
>Installed-Size: 924
>Maintainer: Eduard Bloch <blade at debian.org>
>Architecture: i386
>Version: 1.2.0-3build1
>Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libfuse2, libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.0-7),
>librlog1c2, libssl0.9.7, libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.0-7)
>Filename: pool/universe/e/encfs/encfs_1.2.0-3build1_i386.deb
>Size: 262074
>MD5sum: 39538deadd2058d28b71c4aa3329c74f
>Description: encrypted virtual filesystem
> EncFS integrates file system encryption into the Unix(TM) file system.
> Encrypted data is stored within the native file system, thus no
> fixed-size loopback image is required.
> .
> EncFS uses the FUSE kernel driver and library as a backend. You may
> need to install the kernel modules, running "module-assistant a-i
> fuse".
>Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>Origin: Ubuntu
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>What's nice about encfs is that it works at the file and directory
>level, rather than at the filesystem level.  It's easy to implement on
>the spot.
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>What's not so nice about it is that it's an interactive text shell
>app, not a GUI kind of thing, so it's not as "user friendly" as
>certain other solutions.  However, I'm sure that a simple gui could be
>written to wrapper it, if that's really necessary.
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