[Thunar-dev] Creating a zip file with password through thunar-archive-plugin

[Stephan Arts]

On 1/28/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/28/07, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to create a zip file with password through thunar-archive-plugin?
> > >
> > > These features need to be provided by your default archiver. If they
> > > do, then it is supported.
> > >
> > > Currently, neither file-roller, Xarchiver nor Squeeze support this IIRC.
> > >
> > > Though i would not know why anyone would want to 'protect' an archive
> > > with a password,
> > > simple rwx------ permissions would do the trick just fine.
> >
> > Obviously, to secure the data in transmission. I recall using password
> > protected ZIPs in the DOS days of shareware. You buy the software,
> > they mail you the unzip password for the full version
>
> Certainly, for security reasons, in particular to send sensible files
> through e-mail. And it is false that the plugin is able to insert
> passwords in case of archivers with that feature; as an example, take
> file-roller that has password support.

No, my argument is correct. The archiver provides the dialog shown to
you... if you want it to give you the password-protection option. It
should be added there.

Currently all the archivers i mentioned above provide password-entry
inside the 'add' dialog.
But it is the 'new' dialog which you get to see when using the
thunar-archive-plugin.

When passing command-line options (which is what tap does), these
archivers should (optionally) allow you to enter a password in the
'new' dialog.

Neither of them presents this feature.

But still... there are better ways to transfer files from A to B over
a secure line.

Stephan