Private folder on Ubuntu: Cryptkeeper
Although Team Ubuntu is giving you some privacy in its next release with a new "private" folder, we still need some more. I found a very simple and elegant tool for your private desires. The name Cryptkeeper. Some time back I googled for a private/password protected folder on Ubuntu, but found nothing and suddenly today, I just came across this amazing and simple tool for password protected folders on Ubuntu.
Here is how it works:
When you install it from Add/Remove programs in Ubuntu, it comes with a preety good icon in system tools.
You click it and you will notice a nice key icon in your system tray.
Click the keys and you have the option to create a encrypted folder, like I have created and named it private.
And thats it. You have a folder in which you can keep all your private data. Oh I forgot to mention that, when you create a folder, you will be asked for a password. Wow! Now next time you wana access you private folder, click on the keys and select your folder, you will be prompted with a window for password. Put in the same password and you are in.
Please leave comments.
Here is how it works:
When you install it from Add/Remove programs in Ubuntu, it comes with a preety good icon in system tools.
You click it and you will notice a nice key icon in your system tray.
Click the keys and you have the option to create a encrypted folder, like I have created and named it private.
And thats it. You have a folder in which you can keep all your private data. Oh I forgot to mention that, when you create a folder, you will be asked for a password. Wow! Now next time you wana access you private folder, click on the keys and select your folder, you will be prompted with a window for password. Put in the same password and you are in.
Please leave comments.
5 Comments:
I have noticed that any user can delete the encrypted folder without a need to know the password, what it is not good.
Zoran, Serbia
I have noticed that any user can delete the encrypted folder without a need to know the password, what it is not good.
Zoran, Serbia
I have noticed that any user can delete the encrypted folder without a need to know the password, what it is not good.
Zoran, Serbia
This tool is very good but u can delete crypted folders without confirming with pass so everyone from the comp can delete it. Please release a corrected version :)
The concept that any user can delete the encrypted file may be true by default, but you can make it so this is NOT true. All you have to do is set your user settings so that ONLY the USER has access to their home directory. Then only root can delete the file.
If you really have a machine that many people can use you should "lock it down" by changing the root password, and restricting the sudoers list as well. These fixes are very easy, and you will find how-to's for these changes in Ubuntu with simple Googling.
Hiero2
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