> Hi reetp, I'm specifically addressing you because your use-case is exactly the case that I'm attempting to support in the "phase 1" of removing this annoying limitation Hi, and thanks for looking! Let me try it. I need to reinstall snapd.....done. Xenial, all packages updated. ii snapd 2.54.3+18.04.2ubuntu0.2 amd64 Daemon and tooling that enable snap packages Note I already had this which was a fail. cat /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/ubuntu (This is the file auto created with dpkg-reconfigre apparmor) # This file is auto-generated. It is recommended you update it using: # $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure apparmor # # The following is a space-separated list of where additional user home # directories are stored, each must have a trailing '/'. Directories added # here are appended to @{HOMEDIRS}. See tunables/home for details. @{HOMEDIRS}+=/home/e-smith/files/users/ ------------------------------------------------------- Just to precis #6 and #7 https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1620771/comments/6 Feel free to do one of: $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure apparmor Or drop a file into /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d that has: @{HOMEDIRS}+=/some/nonstandard/home/users/ I forgot to mention you'll need to reload the policy after doing this. So after adjust the HOMEDIRS apparmor variable as stated in comment #6, I suggest: $ sudo rm -f /etc/apparmor.d/cache/* /var/cache/apparmor/snap.* $ sudo reboot (there are other ways to do this without a reboot, but this should work regardless of what apparmor policy you have already generated) ------------------------------------------------------- So I set the apparmor as above. Cleared the caches and rebooted. john@xubuntu:~$ sudo snap install hello-world hello-world 6.4 from Canonical✓ installed john@xubuntu:~$ hello-world cannot create user data directory: /home/e-smith/files/users/john/snap/hello-world/29: Permission denied john@xubuntu:~$ sudo hello-world Hello World! john@xubuntu:~$ hello-world cannot create user data directory: /home/e-smith/files/users/john/snap/hello-world/29: Permission denied And then installed snap-store as well but can't run it as a user: john@xubuntu:~$ snap-store cannot create user data directory: /home/e-smith/files/users/john/snap/snap-store/558: Permission denied john@xubuntu-8300-1:~$ ll /home/e-smith/files/users/john/snap/ total 16 drwx------ 4 john john 4096 Apr 20 17:14 ./ drwx------ 108 john john 4096 Apr 20 17:06 ../ drwxr-xr-x 4 john john 4096 Apr 20 17:00 hello-world/ drwxr-xr-x 4 john john 4096 Apr 20 17:14 snap-store/ john@xubuntu-8300-1:~$ ll /home/e-smith/files/users/john/snap/snap-store total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 john john 4096 Apr 20 17:14 ./ drwx------ 4 john john 4096 Apr 20 17:14 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 john john 4096 Apr 20 17:14 558/ drwxr-xr-x 2 john john 4096 Apr 20 17:14 common/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 john john 3 Apr 20 17:14 current -> 558/ journalctl -xe -- Subject: Unit UNIT has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support -- -- Unit UNIT has failed. -- -- The result is RESULT. Apr 20 18:21:12 xubuntu systemd[3772]: snap.hello-world.hello-world.4de7faab-fc60-4c57-b492-ce3416d6b6cd.scope: Failed to add PIDs to scope's control group: Permission denied Apr 20 18:21:12 xubuntu systemd[3772]: snap.hello-world.hello-world.4de7faab-fc60-4c57-b492-ce3416d6b6cd.scope: Failed with result 'resources'. Apr 20 18:21:12 xubuntu systemd[3772]: Failed to start snap.hello-world.hello-world.4de7faab-fc60-4c57-b492-ce3416d6b6cd.scope. -- Subject: Unit UNIT has failed syslog Apr 20 18:27:40 xubuntu-8300-1 systemd[3772]: snap.hello-world.hello-world.2f6ed7d4-34e8-41d1-acc5-c4f7d64f2fa1.scope: Failed to add PIDs to scope's control group: Permission denied Apr 20 18:27:40 xubuntu-8300-1 systemd[3772]: snap.hello-world.hello-world.2f6ed7d4-34e8-41d1-acc5-c4f7d64f2fa1.scope: Failed with result 'resources'. Apr 20 18:27:40 xubuntu-8300-1 systemd[3772]: Failed to start snap.hello-world.hello-world.2f6ed7d4-34e8-41d1-acc5-c4f7d64f2fa1.scope. Apr 20 18:27:40 xubuntu-8300-1 kernel: [ 3337.306515] audit: type=1400 audit(1650472060.581:77): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="/snap/core/12834/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" name="/home/e-smith/files/" pid=4185 comm="snap-confine" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=5001 ouid=0 Why this? name="/home/e-smith/files/" and not "/home/e-smith/files/users/" ? One thing to note is on this box I use SSSD logins for authentication. However, it doesn't appear to show any errors, and others without that type of login/authent still have the same issue. Let me know if you want further information/tests. Happy to try and debug it.