topic Re: gzip file in Operating System - HP-UX

gzip file

peterchu — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:41:50 GMT

I want to archive some files into one file and want add the password to the compressed , so that only authorized user can open it , is there any archive tool (tar / cpio) that can add the password to the compress file ? thx

Re: gzip file

Stefan Schulz — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:49:32 GMT

Hi,

you can use the zip and unzip utility which you can find on the porting center (e.g. at http://hpux.asknet.de )

With zip you can use the -e option to encrypt the archive with an password.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan

Re: gzip file

Devender Khatana — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:50:41 GMT

Hi,

I do not think it is possible under unix. Atleast both tar and cpio does not seem to show any such option. Also unix depends on the file level permissions rather than passwords as you are looking for.

Curious to know if it is possible?

HTH,
Devender

Re: gzip file

Jannik — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:54:55 GMT

take a look at tools like gpg or as it is called now gnupg:
http://www.gnupg.org/

Re: gzip file

Alex Lavrov. — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:57:49 GMT

OR just change the owner to some user and give 700 permissions, so only that user (and root ofcourse) can read it.

Alex.

Re: gzip file

Jannik — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:58:38 GMT

you can download depots from this site:
http://me.in-berlin.de/~pankow/