How to Password Protect a Vim File in Linux | Linux Today

How to Password Protect a Vim File in Linux

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Aaron Kili
May 9, 2017

Tecmint: In this article, we will explain to you one of the simple Vim usage tricks; password protecting a file using Vim in Linux. We will show you how to secure a file at the time of its creation as well as after opening it for modification.

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Aaron Kili

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