Re: Creating a private folder?`
Hi,
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ralf Nolden wrote:
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> On Wednesday 19 March 2003 22:08, Bob Tilley wrote:
> > I need to create a private partition to which files can be placed.
> >
> > Security needs to be enforced so that password entry is required. The
> > partition file system needs to be encrypted.
> >
> > Does KDE provide any tools suitable to this need?
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> qparted maybe, I haven't looked. If you find out, please let me know so I can
> package it :-)
qparted is a GUI for parted and AFAIK to use at own risk. Please correct
me if I'm wrong. But you can use parted to change the size of existing
partions and to create a new one.
After that you can use the cryptoloop kernel-module to produce a encrypted
partition.
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> Ralf
> >
> > Any ideas are most appreciated!
> >
> > Bob Tilley
>
Greetings,
Sven
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