Bug 1608665 - Default $HOME sync is too dangerous
Summary: Default $HOME sync is too dangerous
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grive2
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Zamir SUN
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-07-26 06:23 UTC by Jan Kratochvil
Modified: 2019-11-27 18:15 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-11-27 18:15:36 UTC
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Description Jan Kratochvil 2018-07-26 06:23:59 UTC
Description of problem:
When I ran grive by default it tried to upload my $HOME to Google. That is insane, parameter -p should be required, not optional.
Although that is an upstream problem but still.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grive2-0.5.0-13.20171122git84c57c1.fc28.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
grive

Actual results:
It uploads $HOME to Google.

Expected results:
Error message one must specify -p.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Zamir SUN 2018-07-26 14:18:35 UTC
Hi Jan,

Thanks for the report. 
Are you sure for this case? In my test grive will refuse to run if no config file exists in current directory and no --path offered.

> $ grive
> Please run grive with the "-a" option if this is the first time you're accessing your Google Drive!

Can you check if you already have a grive config file under your home directory?

Comment 2 Jan Kratochvil 2018-07-26 15:17:05 UTC
[someuser@host2 ~]$ grive 
Please run grive with the "-a" option if this is the first time you're accessing your Google Drive!
[someuser@host2 ~]$ grive -a
-----------------------
Please go to this URL and get an authentication code:

https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?scope=https%3A%2F....apps.googleusercontent.com

-----------------------
Please input the authentication code here: 
4...M
Reading local directories
Reading remote server file list
Synchronizing files
sync "./SECRETFILE-from-local-HOME" doesn't exist in server, uploading
sync "./file-from-my-googledrive" created in remote. creating local
...

It really did upload my SECRETFILE-from-local-HOME to my googledrive.

It did not ask anything before doing such insecure operation. The file has been already sent before I managed to read the line.

Normally I run some tool first to be told which options need to be specified to do what I want. The -a option in man page just says it is about authentication so I expect it will complain later it has no operation to do and I should specify some operation.

We may argue I should RTFM but still I disagree in this case.

Comment 3 Zamir SUN 2018-07-26 15:28:55 UTC
Ok, thanks. This is clear for me now.
As this is the upstream behavior, I'm move down the priority.

Comment 4 Jan Kurik 2018-08-14 10:53:15 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.

Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 20:46:26 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
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Comment 6 Jan Kratochvil 2019-11-02 07:48:38 UTC
The project does not seem to be maintained upstream so I did not re-verify the bug.

Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 18:15:36 UTC
Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is
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