On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > In KDE is there a way for me to password protect one folder such > that if Dolphin is open and I click on the folder it specifically asks > me for a password before opening it? > > I'm thinking of the case where I walk away from my machine and > someone else walks up and tries to get into a directory that has > sensitive data in it. > > If need be I'm probably OK with using some application to encrypt > the directory as long as accessing it is more or less nothing more > than click the folder in Dolphin, supply a password and then the > folder opens.
You are probably looking for something like "EncFS" (http://www.arg0.net/encfs). It is an user-space, FUSE based cryptographic file-system. It provides a few CLI tools only, but there are some 3rd party KDE ServiceMenus to integrate it with Konqueror and Dolphin file managers. Regards, Pedro ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
