ZIP_SET_DEFAULT_PASSWORD(3)

✨ zip_set_default_password — bestie, let's talk default passwords ✨

okay so real talk, this page is ZIP_SET_DEFAULT_PASSWORD(3) from the libzip squad and it's literally the glow-up your encrypted zip files have been waiting for 💅

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🌸 LIBRARY 🌸

libzip (-lzip) — she's the icon, she's the moment, link against her 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <zip.h>

int
zip_set_default_password(zip_t *archive, const char *password);

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the zip_set_default_password() function does exactly what it says on the tin — it sets the default password that gets used when you're accessing encrypted files 🔐✨

And here's the tea: if password is NULL or the empty string, the default password gets unset. poof, gone, no more 🫥

Now, if you're the type of main character who wants a different password for individual files? cute. use zip_fopen_encrypted(3) instead of zip_fopen(3) and live your truth 💁‍♀️ But usually — like, normally-normally — the same password is used for every single file in a zip archive, so this function is the move.

⚠️ IMPORTANT BESTIE MOMENT: the password is not verified when you call this function. like, she does not check it, she does not validate it, she just takes it. for more details about password handling, go read the “CAVEATS” section in zip_fopen_encrypted(3). no cap 🧚

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🌈 RETURN VALUES 🌈

• Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. slay 💚
• Otherwise, -1 is returned and the error information in archive is set to indicate the error. not slay 😭

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💀 ERRORS 💀

zip_set_default_password() fails if:

• [ZIP_ER_MEMORY] — Required memory could not be allocated. the girl is out of memory, she cannot, she simply cannot 🪫

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

libzip(3), zip_fopen(3), zip_fopen_encrypted(3) — the whole friend group, go say hi 🫶

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🦋 HISTORY 🦋

zip_set_default_password() was added in libzip 0.10. a legend from the start, fr fr ⭐

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <wiz@gatalith.at> — the two geniuses behind this whole situation, obsessed with them actually 🎀

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one came from the Debian crew, dated September 15, 2020, and it lives under the name ZIP_SET_DEFAULT_PASSWORD(3) — go forth and password your zips, mwah 💋🌈