[kde-linux] Re: Password protect one folder?

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

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