SRsrslack·Apr 26, 2023
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Reminds me of this: https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli/issues/549
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acd_cli
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yadayada / acd_cli
acd_cli
An unmaintained command line interface and FUSE filesystem for Amazon (Cloud) Drive
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What Hacker News says
8 sourcesI hope this means they'll at least re-open the Amazon Drive API: https://developer.amazon.com/amazon-drive
There are no Amazon-provided Linux solutions to connect with their Drive (except uploading through a web browser), and they are actively shutting down third-party solutions:
https://forum.rclone.org/t/my-response-to-amazon-banning-rcl...
https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli/issues/572
To any Amazon managers reading this: many of the developers who you want using AWS also use Linux on their personal machines.
In Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage planAs someone completely unfamiliar with this space, this prompted me to do some reading into this rclone issue. I'll record it here for anyone else similarly curious.
It seems that as of a few months ago, two popular (unofficial) command line clients for ACD (Amazon Cloud drive) were acd-cli[1] and rclone[2], both of which are open source. Importantly the ACD API is OAuth based, and these two programs took different approaches to managing their OAuth app credentials. acd-cli's author provided an app on GCE that managed the app credentials and performed the auth. rclone on the other hand embedded the credentials into their source, and did the oauth dance through a local server.
On April 15th someone reported an issue on acd-cli titled "Not my file"[3] in a user alleged that they had received someone else's file from using the tool. The autho
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r refered them to amazon support. The issue was updated again on May 13th with another user that had the same problem - this time with better documentation. The user reached out to security@amazon.com to report the issue.
Amazon's security team determined that their system was not at fault, but pointed out a race condition in the source for the acd-cli auth server (sharing the auth state in a global variable between requests...) and disabled the acd-cli app access to protect customers.[4]
In response to this banning, one user suggested that a workaround to get acd-cli working again would be to use the developer option for local oauth dance, and use rclone's credentials (from the public rclone source).[5] This got rclone's credentials banned as well,[6] presumably when the amazon team noticed that they were publicly available.
To top this all off, the ACD team also closed down API registration for new apps around this time (which seems to have already been a strenuous process). I suppose the moral of the story is that OAuth is hard.
[1]: https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli
[2]: https://github.com/ncw/rclone
[3]: https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli/issues/549
[4]: https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli/pull/562#issuecomment-30...
[5]: https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli/pull/562#issuecomment-30...
[6]: https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-has-been-banned-from-amazo...
It appears acd_cli (Amazon Cloud Drive fuse access project) may be dead
Whilst the acd_cli project has hit API rate limits in the past (due to an increasing number of end-users sharing one developer security profile for access to the ACD API), it would seem that the App may have been pulled entirely, possibly by Amazon.
A couple of days ago, it was noted (on HN) that users were proving it was potentially possible to view and edit other user's files, in other ACD accounts.
Now, the App has disappeared from auth'd Apps in the ACD web console, the "Issues" has been closed on the project's Github, and it continues to not function.
If there's a possible silver-lining, it's that acdcli calls are still returning (in HTML form) a message about "This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later." which could potentially suggest that the outage is related, but since the ability to view oth
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er user's files still exists (and the fix of obtaining your own Developer profile is limited, as Amazon have closed invitations), this could well be the end of the acd_cli project :(
https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli
Files visible to other users in Amazon Cloud Drive
6 points · Open discussionAmazon Cloud Drive is exposing other users' files
3 points · Open discussion>Has anyone had success with Amazon Drive
Don't know, but i do have success with acd_cli : https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli
In Rclone: rsync for cloud storage> The biggest missing feature so far seems to be something akin to a folder sync
note that you can use many other clients like for example "Arq Backup" or "acd_cli" ( https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli ) to transfer files to Amazon Cloud Drive.
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