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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers File password. Post 18226 by killerserv on Tuesday 26th of March 2002 04:18:12 AM
Old 03-26-2002
I dunt think so. (Might be wrong) but i never came on setting a password protect a file. Unless the only thing you can do is play around or set the file permission.

read - r
write - w
execute - x

or changemode chmod a file. chmod - changes file access permissions.

SYNOPSIS
$ chmod 777 <filename>

try man chmod
or info chmod..

chmod [OPTION]... MODE[,MODE]... FILE...
chmod [OPTION]... OCTAL_MODE FILE...
chmod [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...


Do post back..
 

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