mfillpot wrote:
lucky you, someone just posted on commandlinefu about the vim password protection. just use vim -x {filename}
the post is on http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2100/add-password-protection-to-a-file-your-editing-in-vim.
nice
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Running Ubuntu Linux, the 5.0 release.
GNOME: 2.26.1 (Ubuntu 2009-04-14)
Kernel version: 2.6.28-11-generic (#42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009)
GCC: 4.3.3 (i486-linux-gnu)
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SCSI device - scsi0
Vendor: ATA
Model: ST3160811AS
SCSI device - scsi1
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Model: ST3250620AS
SCSI device - scsi4
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VGA controller
nVidia Corporation NV42 [GeForce 6800 XT] (rev a2)
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ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7191
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Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 191c
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Fantastic!
Not the file per say but you can encrypt a folder with True crypt. Is that what your looking to do? Also Nautilus has encryption functionalities.
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