When creating a tar ball, can I also password protect it? 2

[stla]

I would like to create a tar ball script that is executed as a cron job.

Is it possible that once the tarball is created, I can password protect it?

Best regards

 

[thedaver]

You can encrypt files using PGP. That's my suggestion.

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[mbrooks]

Encrypt Me

% tar cf [i]filename.tar[/i] <my files>
% openssl des3 -salt -in [i]filename.tar[/i] -out [i]filename.tar[/i].des3

Decrypt Me

% openssl des3 -d -salt -in [i]filename.tar[/i].des3 -out [i]filename.tar[/i]
% tar xf [i]filename.tar[/i]

M. Brooks

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