TailsOS with Gnome Online Accounts integration [Integration with Google (Files, Documents, Mail), ownCloud, Microsoft, Facebook, etc)] (quick discussion)

[fititnt]

See also:

• Original issue/comment:
  • https://github.com/fititnt/TailsOS-for-non-whistleblowers/issues/15#issuecomment-716045391
• https://linuxnewbieguide.org/how-to-use-google-drive-in-linux/
• What Gnome Online Accounts integration provides
  • https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts/Providers
  • Note to self: actually I'm suprised by this (I dont use). But definely Gnome could be friendly for end users
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/227441/gnome-online-accounts-through-proxy
  • Someone asked about only for Online Accounts, but no reply https://askubuntu.com/questions/1190511/set-proxy-for-gnome-online-accountsgoogle

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This issue is just to comment (what is unlikely to become an shell script) about a quick experience testing Gnome Online Accounts on Tails.

[fititnt]

To install, at login screen, make sure to

• Setup administrator password
• Access to internet is need (not just for the files, but for the first download of packages)
• Persistence is not required (seems to be likely to work even from live USB)

On the terminal, the command need are

sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts
# From my tests, required around 8 MB, but it was not a clean install, so maybe is more

After this, you can search by "online accounts" to find the new app (From tails press Super key (WindowsKey) then search by this term).

[fititnt]

This is the screen of gnome online accounts

Error without configuring proxy

With proxy

Tails use Tor. So actually makes sense why they did not setup automaticaly tor proxy for Gnome online accounts: if an user really use this nice-to-have feature I'm saying here, you would expose your Tor IP all the time (and even if these data persisted to the disk, it would not be that safe be too easy). But if an user don't care about survilance, it's one way to not install an thirdy-party app.

At least the login screen load (yep, with some randon IP)

On the socks part, use 127.0.0.1 and 9050

[fititnt]

I will close this issue. I didint make the full test (actually log on some of these accounts, but for a thread model where the main goal is not online anonimity (or at least not for a short term, like if have to recover backups) this could work compared to other alternatives.

This link explained where configure the proxy https://askubuntu.com/questions/227441/gnome-online-accounts-through-proxy. I just used the same logic from #17.

This is one of the issues marked with the label anti-pattern-on-tails to be even more explicity that may be used in the wrong way.

On this case is more about online anonimity, not about someone steal your password or something (that actually could happens if using some free VPN).