password asking on certain application

[kuipou]

since i installed onenote in crossover i cant seem to be able to password lock my journal is there a way that ubuntu could ask me a password i set for the app before it launches or a way that i can password lock my journals as it dosent seem to want to do it ?

[bodhi.zazen]

This is a FAQ on these forums.

The basic function you are wanting is performed on linux by permissions. As long as you give each user a separate account , you set the permissions of your file so that only your user can access the file.

say the file is called "foo"

chmod 600 foo

http://www.zzee.com/solutions/linux-permissions.shtml

Now only your user and root can access the file. Since people can not access your account without your password .

Essentially Linux is already password protected.

The caveat is Ubuntu is fairly permissive by default (user home directories are readable by anyone). You can change the permissions of /home/usename (not recursively).

chmod 770 $HOME

last, if you need to restrict root use encryption.