Comment 6 for bug 1619888
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| Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote Re: Snap should be able to run chown | #6 |
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This bug and bug #1581310 are similar but different. Since the other bug deals with chowning to the calling user and root, I'm going to refocus this bug on adding support to snapd for adding users that snaps may use to drop privileges (and chown).
@Robert and @James, I suspect that your issues will be resolved when bug #1581310 is fixed, and fixing that can begin soon after various other dev work for snappy GA is completed
Fixing this bug (ie, adding support to snapd for snap-specific users) requires design for a full implementation (it is needed by lxd, docker, mysql, postgresql, etc, etc).
In the process of fixing bug #1581310, we could unblock people on this bug by allowing snaps to use the 'daemon' user and group. It is already on the system so needs no changes to snapd. I suspect this will be useful even when this bug is fixed.