kushaldas/manualbox

ManualBox

ManualBox is a tool for desktop users (Linux and Mac) to create/mount an userspace file system, where reading of any file will require user input from this tool.

Installation & Usage

Read the wiki for the latest installation and usage guide.

Development guide

Follow the development guide if you want to hack on the tool.

License

GPLv3+

manualbox's Issues

ls -l gives error on a name every time

The following errors are coming only for ls -l command, but, not for ls or tree output.

$ ls -la
ls: .: Invalid argument
total 12
drwx------ 2 kdas kdas      0 Mar 19 23:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 kdas kdas      0 Mar 19 12:37 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kdas kdas      0 Mar 19 23:24 authorized_keys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kdas kdas   2174 Mar 19 23:24 config

or

$ ls -l adir
ls: adir: Invalid argument
total 6
-rw-r--r-- 1 kdas kdas 32839 Mar 19 23:21 bad_looking_password_input.gif
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     0 Mar 19 23:14 bdir
-rw-r--r-- 1 kdas kdas    11 Mar 19 22:39 helloworld.txt

The icons need to have a transparent background

I tried out manualbox with KDE. The icons will integrate much better with the desktop if the png was transparent. Do you have the SVG source for the icons? If you add it to the repository, I could try to recreate the icon again with inkscape.

Show version in the window text

We should show the version number somewhere in the application.

Error while copying files through GUI

While copying one of the files of 12KB through the GUI, the following error pops up.

No way to exit from the application if systray is disabled

In Debian, seems systray is disabled by default. Hence I am unable to access the right click option to exit from the entire application.

Possible Solution:
Exit from the entire application when clicking on the cross button of the applications itself.

Is it possible to trap file creation & deletion as well?

Right now, manualbox traps read access to the ~/secured directory. Any pointers on how the code could be extended to trap file creation, deletion, rename etc?

Show process name while asking for user input

Right now we are only showing the details which file is being opened, we should also show which process is asking to access the file.

Build a mac app

We need to build a mac app, with all the dependencies for both the command line tools. I will push the half done branch with pyinstaller here.

issue removing temporary files

When editing a file with vim, temporary .swp files are generated. However, the files usually are removed when cleanly saving and exiting vim.
In my ~/secure folder, .swp and .swx files are generated and not removed when closing the file. Manually removing the file yields

~/secured » rm .test.txt.swp
rm: cannot remove '.test.txt.swp': Invalid argument

I have to unlock the file first, e.g. with cat .test.txt.swp and then remove it with rm.

CSS breaks in Dark Theme

I don't think we should be injecting CSS into widgets, better let the user/platform take care of the styling.

Do not unmount if the user is inside of the mounted path

If there is any error while doing the real unmount operation, then do not unmount it.