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UtrechtUniversity / researchcloud-items

Installation scripts for SURF ResearchCloud catalog components
https://utrechtuniversity.github.io/researchcloud-items/
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OneDrive client #214

Open jelletreep opened 1 month ago

jelletreep commented 1 month ago

Since many researchers are advised to use OneDrive as online storage during their research, it makes sense to add support and documentation for working with onedrive. Ideas:

Proposal: A manual for a CLI client that can be used in Ubuntu, Rstudio, Juypter Notebook workspaces: Rclone is a popular and good CLI that can work with OneDrive, the only difficulty is that one needs a browser for authentication. It is easy to install and use. I think for this solution a manual would be a good addition to the vre-docs manuals. This one seems also popular. Rclone is not specific to onedrive, which is nice since people might want to use it for surfdrive, dropbox etc. as well which makes (parts of) the manual multi-purpose. On the other hand, there is a GUI based on this client as well.

A GUI client for Ubuntu Desktop workspaces: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/02/install-onedrive-ubuntu/

dometto commented 1 month ago

Great idea! The RClone manual seems like a must-have anyway. We can easily also install the onedrive client, but one thing we should figure out (actually also for RClone) is how authentication tokens are stored -- on machines where everyone has sudo, we should avoid solutions that store credentials on disk.