I installed file-roller from Software and when I proceeded to create a new archive, it will not let me enter a password. I tried creating a tar.gz file. The same occurs for tar.bz2. Am I missing a dependancy?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/File%20Roller
According to google, tar files can not be protected with passwords.
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Password protected archives in the arj, 7z, rar and zip formats are supported.
Thank you for this. Do you have a recommendation for how I could encrypt an archive then in Clear Linux? I wanted to make a backup of some files, but wanted it encrypted. I wanted to preserve file permissions, etc so that is why I was thinking of using a tar archive.
using a tar archive is entirely reasonable. I would suggest using gpg -c $file to encrypt it with a password.
Alternatively, I’ve seen people embedding tar files into a password-protected zip file. It’s a little strange, but it works.
Thank you very much!