Sponsored Content
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Zip file with password protection Post 302295104 by pintu on Friday 6th of March 2009 04:20:35 PM
Old 03-06-2009
If I encode using pgp in UNIX, what software would the user have to use to open it in say MS-Word /Notepad ? Forgot to mention that the file is .txt.

From what I read, if I use crypt to encode the file, I have to use crypt to decode it too! cannot use that in Windows, or can I ?
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Does unix has password protection for zip files?

How to set password in zip files under unix? There are password protection available in various os. Does unix has password protection for zip files? Is zip and gzip command has it? (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: p_prathaban
6 Replies

2. AIX

File password protection/encryption

Can it be done? Ive read in a few places that the crypt program no longer exists on AIX...if its do-able please tell me how. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rdudejr
2 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Syntaxt to zip a file with password protection

Hi Experts, I am an SAP ABAP developer and compleatly stranger to unix and I need a help to extend a small peice of code. Our requirement is to zip a file with password protection in a specified directory. Following is the code I am using to zip a file ZZZZ.TXT. Here YYYY = is the path... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: veeru4all
3 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Password protect a zip file

Hi, I'm working on Solaris 9 and i need to unzip a password protected zip, which i can do using zip -Ppassword filename however when i have done what i need to do with the file is to zip the file back up with a password. Zip on my system is version 2.3 and does not support this? How can... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pablo_beezo
0 Replies

5. AIX

How to zip file in AIX with password.

Hi Guru, I have assignment to create script to compress file as .ZIP with password. I don't know the command line in AIX. It's very new for me. I'm try to use zip or tar but I don't have any option for encrypt with password. Please kindly suggest me. Thank you very much. Multidev (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: multidev
7 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Password Protection using Term::ReadKey

Hi Friends, I execute a perl script with password as input but i wish not to print the password when i give the input. Instead when i provide the password it could be shown as "****" instead of original password. I know we can use Term::ReadKey or IO::Prompt for this, but just wanted to know if... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: nmattam
0 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

uuencode - .csv file password protection

HI, Can we add password protection for attachment of .CSV file in below command or any alternative solution. uuencode ../reports/gtsa_lmt_pb_rfs_daily.txt gtsa_lmt_pb_rfs_daily-$FILDTE.csv |mailx -s "gtsa_lmt_pb_rfs_daily" $MAILTO Many thanks regards, Sampath (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sampath.Rachcha
4 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Password protection in unix

How to create a file in UNIX which is password protected ? Thanks and Regards, Neeraj (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: neeraj617
5 Replies

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

password protect a CSV file: better solution than ZIP password?

Hi We send *.csv with sensitive data to our customers. Our customers open those files with Excel. A new requirement is that we password protect those CSV files. I thought to pack them with ZIP and assign a password to the archive. But Solaris 10 can't encrypt ZIP files. $ zip -P... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: slashdotweenie
12 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Zip a file with password

Hi, newbie to Linux, is there another way to zip a file with a password other than using 'zip' command? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: mined
7 Replies
ZIP_ERRORS(3)						     Library Functions Manual						     ZIP_ERRORS(3)

NAME
zip_errors - list of all libzip error codes LIBRARY
libzip (-lzip) SYNOPSIS
#include <zip.h> DESCRIPTION
The following error codes are used by libzip: [ZIP_ER_OK] No error. [ZIP_ER_MULTIDISK] Multi-disk zip archives not supported. [ZIP_ER_RENAME] Renaming temporary file failed. [ZIP_ER_CLOSE] Closing zip archive failed. [ZIP_ER_SEEK] Seek error. [ZIP_ER_READ] Read error. [ZIP_ER_WRITE] Write error. [ZIP_ER_CRC] CRC error. [ZIP_ER_ZIPCLOSED] Containing zip archive was closed. [ZIP_ER_NOENT] No such file. [ZIP_ER_EXISTS] File already exists. [ZIP_ER_OPEN] Can't open file. [ZIP_ER_TMPOPEN] Failure to create temporary file. [ZIP_ER_ZLIB] Zlib error. [ZIP_ER_MEMORY] Malloc failure. [ZIP_ER_CHANGED] Entry has been changed. [ZIP_ER_COMPNOTSUPP] Compression method not supported. [ZIP_ER_EOF] Premature EOF. [ZIP_ER_INVAL] Invalid argument. [ZIP_ER_NOZIP] Not a zip archive. [ZIP_ER_INTERNAL] Internal error. [ZIP_ER_INCONS] Zip archive inconsistent. [ZIP_ER_REMOVE] Can't remove file. [ZIP_ER_DELETED] Entry has been deleted. [ZIP_ER_ENCRNOTSUPP] Encryption method not supported. [ZIP_ER_RDONLY] Read-only archive. [ZIP_ER_NOPASSWD] No password provided. [ZIP_ER_WRONGPASSWD] Wrong password provided. AUTHORS
Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at> NiH March 10, 2009 ZIP_ERRORS(3)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:41 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy