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[Derek Atkins]

Bill Wisse <wiswp at niue.nu> writes:

> This is a possible way of working but I agree with OP.
> Gnucash should be password protected. I'm using GC for almost 2 years now and 
> I always wondered why this is not possible.
> IANAP but it must be easy to do this? Derek?

As Josh said, GnuCash is a financial app, not a security program.
If you want encrypted data, use an OpenPGP product (e.g. gpg) to
encrypt/decrypt your data and wipe your backup files.

We had discussed this in the past, but frankly anything GnuCash could
do would just be "security through obscurity" or we'd get tons of
calls from users saying they forgot their passwords.

So, we leave it up to the user.

We have no plans to add a "password" to gnucash files.  You can do
that yourself (and indeed SHOULD do it yourself) with file permissions.

-derek
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