OpenSUSE Hardware :: Password Protect External Usb Drive
May 13, 2011What is the best way to password protect an external drive? After searching I found a few programs which seem to perform what I want to do.
View 5 RepliesWhat is the best way to password protect an external drive? After searching I found a few programs which seem to perform what I want to do.
View 5 RepliesI was wondering is there was a way I could make it so that to access my usb flash drive you would need a password.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a folder on my flash drive where I keep sensitive info (important numbers, passwords, etc.) and would like to protect this info in the event that someone gets a hold of this drive.
I figured the best method was encryption so I started experimenting with gpg, but I encountered problems as mentioned here:
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I still haven't found a solution so I'm looking into possible alternatives. As shown in the above thread, someone recommended using eCryptfs or an encfs directory. Before I spend anymore time researching this stuff, has anyone tried using these before? Do they work well and do you think these would suit my needs?
The only other alternative I can think is just compressing the folder into a password protected rar file. Would this work well or would I be leaving my data vulnerable?
ALSO, I would a prefer a solution that would still allow me to backup this folder using rsync. I like to keep and up-to-date backup of my entire flash drive by syncing it to another flash drive using rsync.
I can't login after the password-protect-screen-saver comes on during a download.The screen is black, the cursor arrow moves with the mouse, but no login window.I have no idea what is wrong but it seems to correlate with this combination.
View 2 Replies View Relateddoes anyone know how to password protect the USB ports so if someone were to plug something in that is USB Ubuntu would ask for root password before allowing access to the device.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to password protect a whole folder?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just want to know is it possible to protect our kernel through password. If i have three kernels and i want to protect it through kernel so any one without providing the correct password could not be able to boot from that kernel.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI pay $85 for each of my ebooks and have my UoP password and username to open them.The problem is that I want to move them to my kindle dx which does not support the password part of the pdf file.How can I remove the password protect from this file.Each page is password protected, but I only have to put in my password one time and it opens the whole ebook.However, on the kindle dx, the cursor does not go to the username or password box, so i can't open it on my kindle.I tried buying and using a PDF restrictions remover but all it does is say "Restrictions Removed" but the password protect is still on when I transfer it to the kindle.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI create music and usually gets sold world wide. I have some distributors that have been able to access a private server and get the new tunes I make to download via ftp. Well that server is getting full and I was trying to create another directory on my website itself.I created the directory. made the ".htaccess" file. Then I tried to make the htpasswd file but my server just keeps saying no command by that name.
View 8 Replies View Relatedtell me a way to password protect the HOSTS file in ubuntu so that when i block certain websites the other person cannot unblock them.
IMP: i donot want the HOSTS file to be protected by 'root' password as the other person knows it.
For my IPT assignment i need to make a database for a company and basically my only problem is i can't work out how to password protect a single table in the database.
I tried clicking encrypt with password but that encrypts the entire database.
I am using MS office 2007.
it is possible to password protect a single workspace. Say for example, 1-3 are accessible and number 4 password protected.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am currently running Lucid 10.04(lts) on a dual boot with windows xp. What i am looking for is some guidance on how to re-install the requirement for a password when trying to mount the xp partition as this was standard in Jaunty and i liked it like that as my computer is often open for many hours at work. Yeh i know i can lock the screen but sometimes other people need to use my computer.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want to password protect a script's code from being viewed in a text editor. How to do this?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have Lenny with Gnome and would like to protect Gnome settings like "Edit Menus", "Desktop Background", etc. from any changes by password.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIm running apache2 on a debian webserver and i was wondering how i can password protect a folder in my www directory when someone try to access it from the web.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was wondering how to password protect certain file folders?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want to password protect evolution. How would I do that? I want to allow anyone to access all my other software, but my business email needs to be privateMy current solution seems to be to setup another account. But all the user switching and other what not seems a little much for one program.
View 2 Replies View Relatedis there a way to password protect a file or folder from the terminal? i wanted to do this because I may have several friends depositing files on my ssh server that they don't want each other to see. Or i might have a file i don't want them to see.I installed cryptkeeper,but it can't take commands from the terminal. Anything else I can try?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would usually just root the permissions to 000 but I need to password protect a folder on a usb drive and then open it on windows.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've reduced my Grub2 menu(using Ubuntu 10.04) list to only 1 item.I want to automatically boot into the one item without providing a password (it does this now). I also want to disable someone from being able to bring up the Grub2 menu and hit 'e' to edit the menu item. Any ideas how to do that? I've been sifting through the forums, but I haven't had any luck finding a post about this
View 2 Replies View Relatedactually i upload a password protect folder software, but unfortunately it was a trial version which i didn't know . now i am unable to recover my files from that.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to password protect say a subdirectory, or a subdomain via vhost, with a username/password, but use the systems users and passwords as logins -> I want go avoid any and all .htaccess... as everyone should be doing anyway How would I go about doing this? I know my way around the apache configs fairly well, so I'm not a total newb -> I now I can use .useraccess and .pwaccess but that's flat file driven, not based off of the systems users/passwords.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to copy files from my external hard drive to the desktop and instead of the usual copy or move to options, I get a widget menu! How do I correct this so I can copy files?I'm running opensuse 11.3 KDE 64bit
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've got an USB-to-IDE hard disk drive enclosure to revive an old IDE harddrive. I installed the drive and connected it to my pc running opensuse 11.2. Unfortunately the drive wasn't recognised, so I couldn't access it. This is the output of dmesg:
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May 18 18:53:57 advo kernel: [81051.520117] usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10
May 18 18:53:58 advo kernel: [81053.041979] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6391
May 18 18:53:58 advo kernel: [81053.042107] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
May 18 18:53:58 advo kernel: [81053.042208] usb 1-4: Product: USB TO IDE Bridge
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I'm running openSUSE 11.1 32-bit and I'm trying to use my external USB DVD-RW drive. I've tried loading two 11.1 discs in the drive and both of them fail.After putting the dvd in the drive I mount with::mount/dev /scd0 /media/cdrom
and it comes back with:mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so.Second question is can I use this external USB DVD-RW drive to install linux from, or does it have to be an internal drive? If so is there anything special I need to do to get it to look at the drive during boot. I take it this is dependant on a BIOS setting. This is all assuming of course I can get my dvd's to read.
My external disk does not appear as mounted on the desktop (It's e-Sata and NTFS, samsung 1.36 Tera bytes ) There's nothing in /media, nor it appears on the desktop as mounted. What can i do to be able to use it?
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When I plug my USB drive in, the kernel sees it and I can mount it manually. However, it won't automount. I've done plenty of google searches but nothing I've tried has worked for 'GNOME, SUSE 11.3.' I am not sure if it is a permissions problem, configuration problem, a kernel automount, HID, or USB problem.
uname -a (stock SUSE desktop kernel):
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Linux linux-hez9 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-12-13 11:13:53 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Here is the output from /var/log/messages:
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Feb 14 15:47:09 linux-hez9 kernel: [16258.620213] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
Feb 14 15:47:09 linux-hez9 kernel: [16258.749549] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=1023
Feb 14 15:47:09 linux-hez9 kernel: [16258.749553] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 .....
So I've got a weird issue with my usb external drive. It's a generic enclosure in to which I've mounted a toshiba IDE drive. It appears as "Generic USB to IDE bridge".Said drive works fine on every machine I try to use it on, but NOT my laptop. Oh, it will appear in LSUSB, and in dmesg, (sometimes it appears, but the partitions do not, e.g. I see sdc, but not sdc1 and sdc2).
However, on any attempt to access it (it mounts fine too), Dolphin hangs (and so does most of KDE). I assume a disk sleep is the problem. Unplugging the drive resolves the hang. ages later, the drive will copy bits of data in small spurts, until it hangs for some more time. After a while, I see an ACHI/USB reset message in the system logs, and the drive resumes copying for some more time.
The drive is bus powered, but it doesn't matter if I use one/both USB connectors, and like I said, it works fine on my desktop, which also has SuSE 11.4 on it. Any ideas what's going on? Sorry if I left out some info, I wanted to get this out and let you folks stew over it while I'm running some errands.
I have a large external drive, which I connect to my laptop via a PCMCIA card - the machine is old and does not have USB 2.0 built in, so I use the PCMCIA card for that.
I am thinking of the following setup, and hope you can give me some tips on whether or not that would be a sound solution:
- designate a boot partition on the laptop's internal hard drive, which could store kernels
- make up a linux partition (or more than one) to use as root for any distribution on the external drive
- keep /home as separate partition on the external drive
My goal in mind is to be able to boot more than one Linux partition from the external drive. I can't make it through USB boot because the PCMCIA card is not recognized before a kernel module is loaded, and I can't use the internal USB 1.1 port for the external drive.
Do you think this is the way to go? Currently, I only have my /home partition mounted off the external drive.