I've a Dual Xeon with Fedora Core 1.

I just downloaded my MySQL databse in a .gz format. But the gz file is password protected.

How do I extract it or say how do I resotre the db as the file is password protected?

Any help greatly appreciated.

does tar xvf file.tar asks you for a password? If you don't have the password you can say goodbye or get a hacker. ;)

Paste what you typed and what was output. Neither tar nor gzip support passwords directly afaik.

ah sorry! its a zip file (.zip)

Try reading the man page.

man unzip

-P password
use password to decrypt encrypted zipfile entries (if any).
THIS IS INSECURE! Many multi-user operating systems provide
ways for any user to see the current command line of any other
user; even on stand-alone systems there is always the threat of
over-the-shoulder peeking. Storing the plaintext password as
part of a command line in an automated script is even worse.
Whenever possible, use the non-echoing, interactive prompt to
enter passwords. (And where security is truly important, use
strong encryption such as Pretty Good Privacy instead of the
relatively weak encryption provided by standard zipfile utili-
ties.)