Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: safemount
Version: 0.6
Summary: A FUSE mount that only permits safe characters in the file names
Home-page: http://github.com/vrthra/safemount
Author: Rahul Gopinath
Author-email: rahul@gopinath.org
License: UNKNOWN
Description: # safemount
        
        We have to jump through multiple hoops in shell scripts to ensure that our
        scripts handle special characters such as space, hyphen etc. properly. A number
        of security vulnerabilities exist because of mishandling of these characters.
        
        However, these special characters, while important for GUI are not a necessity
        for command line. The idea of this library is to provide a FUSE filesystem that
        mounts a given directory under a mount point such that all the special
        characters are URL encoded. We include `-` in the list of characters that are
        encoded. Further, we also remove `.` and `..` from the directory listing.
        
        With this, the shell scripts can assume that none of the directory
        or file names contain special characters.
        
        The usage is as follows:
        
        ```
        python3 -m pip install fusepy
        python3 -m safemount ./mydir ./mntpoint
        ```
        
        See also:
        1. https://dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html
        2. https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
        3. https://lwn.net/Articles/325304/
        4. https://lwn.net/Articles/686789/
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Filesystems
Classifier: Topic :: Security
