Safe Netrc

This package provides a subclass of the Python standard library netrc.netrc class to add some custom behaviors.

1. If the NETRC environment variable is defined, then use it as the default netrc file path.

2. Backport permissions checks that were added in Python 3.1 (see https://bugs.python.org/issue14984).

3. Apply permissions checks whether or or not we are reading from the default netrc file, and whether or not the file contains passwords.

Installation

pip install safe-netrc

Usage

>>> from safe_netrc import netrc

Notes for software packaging

Software packaging files exist for the following systems:

• RPM: https://git.ligo.org/packaging/rhel/python-safe-netrc
• Debian: https://git.ligo.org/packaging/debian/safe-netrc
• Conda: https://github.com/conda-forge/safe-netrc-feedstock