Password-protected folders

[inko9nito]

Does anyone know how to password-protect a certain folder without having to download some program that lets you do that?

[sarumont]

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Can you be more specific? Are you trying to set a folder unaccessible to a local user? Or is it on a web server? More details please.

[inko9nito]

No, not on a server (I know how to do That). Just on my local system, I want it to promt me (or anyone else) for a password before letting you see the contents. If that's possible of course.

[sarumont]

I'm not sure about that, but you *can* set the permissions to 700 so that no one can have permission to use it except the owner. That's the closest thing I know that will work.

[inko9nito]

Heh, unfortunately not close enough. And you are underestimating me lol I know how to set permissions

[kpzani]

I don't think Linux does this without extra software. LInux likes users and groups and that kind of thing not just plain old passwords.

why not create a folder somewhere and set tight permissions and ownership so that only the apache user can access it. then set up a virtual folder on apache that maps to it and use a .htaccess file to prompt for the password.

then just access the folder through the web browser.

I take it you need to keep some stuff secure.

If you're just hiding stuff on the pc then create a partition somewhere and don't make an entry for it in fstab so you need to manually mount it before use. You could even have a bash script that prompted the user for a word then mounted the drive and opened it in nautilus.

[inko9nito]

hmm, good idea (apache), thanks

[rosoft]

As far as I know you have to set it in the files .htacces and .password but this can probably only be done by the root. Some ISPs such as main has a webbased system for this. Don't if you have to do some thing with the apache server as well or what ever http server you are using. I have tried to do this on my homepage server but haven't got the hang of it yet. Maybe someone can follow this thread and let me know.

Rosoft

I don't think Linux does this without extra software. LInux likes users and groups and that kind of thing not just plain old passwords.

why not create a folder somewhere and set tight permissions and ownership so that only the apache user can access it. then set up a virtual folder on apache that maps to it and use a .htaccess file to prompt for the password.

then just access the folder through the web browser.

I take it you need to keep some stuff secure.

If you're just hiding stuff on the pc then create a partition somewhere and don't make an entry for it in fstab so you need to manually mount it before use. You could even have a bash script that prompted the user for a word then mounted the drive and opened it in nautilus.