Let’s see how to install Gnome Encfs Manager.

Method 1: Lock folders with Gnome Encfs Manager In fact, the steps should be applicable to other Linux distributions such as Fedora, Arch Linux etc but the commands to install the tool won’t be the same. I am using Ubuntu in this tutorial but you can any other Linux distribution based on Ubuntu such as Linux Mint, elementary OS etc. For an average desktop user, it should work just fine. Though these vulnerabilities are not easily exploitable, it means that EncFs is not ‘military grade’ secure. The problem with EncFs is that a security audit in 2014 found some vulnerabilities in EncFs. It is an open source cryptographic file system. If this is something that interests you, let’s see how to lock a folder in Linux.īefore you go on with the instructions let me warn you about something. If so, then why are we talking about folder lock for Linux today? It’s because I got a request from an It’s FOSS reader for a tutorial on encrypted folders in Ubuntu. Mostly because my laptop is used only with me and also because I do not have the need to hide any files. I haven’t used such folder locking applications in Linux for years. Like gallery lock applications on smartphones, these applications were vastly popular for hiding private files etc. There were also some applications that used to lock the folders with a password. I remember that when I was in college, popular ways to hide ‘special files’ were to put it under the C drive or in a deeply nested folder structure. But that’s not entire foolproof because the files will be shown in the desktop search results. You can obviously hide it at places where others cannot find it. You might be in a situation when you often share your computer with other people but you have some private files that you don’t want others to see. In this post, we’ll see how to password protect a folder in Ubuntu Linux.

In the last post, we saw how to create password protected zip file in Linux.

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