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Permission Guard

A zero-dependency, minimal permission guard for Deno to prevent overly permissive execution of your applications.

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Getting Started

import { guard } from "https://deno.land/x/permissionGuard@2.3.0/mod.ts";

await guard();

console.log("Execute my code...!");

Installation

This is a Deno module available to import direct from this repo and via the Deno Registry.

Before importing, download and install Deno.

You can then import Permission Guard straight into your project:

import { guard } from "https://deno.land/x/permissionGuard@2.3.0/mod.ts";

Permission Guard is also available on nest.land, a package registry for Deno on the Blockchain.

import { guard } from "https://x.nest.land/permissionGuard@2.3.0/mod.ts";

Note: Permission Guard makes use of the unstable Deno Permissions API which requires --unstable to be passed in the Deno run command. You can use Permission Guard in applications and not provide the --unstable flag, Permission Guard will simply return as a no-op and not provide any defenses.

Features

  • Protection against unnecessary top-level permissions. Including ability to revoke undesired permissions.
  • Protection against missing required permissions.
  • Recommendations where permissions could be better scoped (if log: true provided).
  • Useful logs detailing the missing or insecure permissions (if log: true provided).

Documentation

Examples

To run the examples, you have two choices:

  1. Clone the Permission Guard repo locally:

    git clone git://github.com/asos-craigmorten/permission-guard.git --depth 1
    cd permission-guard

    Then run the example you want:

    deno run --unstable ./examples/defaults/index.ts

All the examples contain example commands in their READMEs to help get you started.

Contributing

Contributing guide


License

Permission Guard is licensed under the MIT License.