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Option to remove access to home directory for apps
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Description
Hello,
Winapps is fantastic, and thank you so much for continuing development! Would you consider an update to optionally remove access to the Linux home directory for specified apps? There may be privacy and security risks here. Even the Winapps config which contains the Windows username and password is accessible. Locally, I've removed usage of +home-drive in bin/winapps to remove access to the Linux home directory, and instead mounted a shared folder via virt-manager for apps to use.
Thanks!
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading bin/winapps, focusing on how +home-drive is applied and how app-specific configuration is selected. Compare the current behavior with the reported virt-manager shared-folder workaround. Done means users can optionally disable Linux home-directory access for specified apps while retaining an explicitly mounted shared folder.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, shell
- Domain
- desktop, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100