zip_set_default_password(3)

zip_set_default_password3

Set default password for encrypted files in zip

Usage

#include <zip.h>

int

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

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The zip_set_default_password() function sets the default password used when accessing encrypted files. If password is NULL or the empty string, the default password is unset.

If you prefer a different password for single files, use zip_fopen_encrypted(3) instead of zip_fopen(3). Usually, however, the same password is used for every file in an zip archive.

The password is not verified when calling this function. See the CAVEATS section in zip_fopen_encrypted(3) for more details about password handling.

Return values

Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the error information in archive is set to indicate the error.

Errors

zip_set_default_password() fails if:

[ZIP_ER_MEMORY]

Required memory could not be allocated.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10–12
  5. 13–Arch

History

zip_set_default_password() was added in libzip 0.10.

Authors

Dieter Baron ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Thomas Klausner ⟨[email protected]⟩

From libzip 1.11.4-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.