Snap support for non /home homedirs

[Ciprian Pascu]

Hi guys,

I open this issue in the light of ubuntu 20.04 using snap as a deployment mechanism for its own internal ecosystem. Will I be able to do it if my home folder resides outside the default /home directory? Snap has a well-known issue about it: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/support-for-non-home-homedirs/11209 They are complaining about the impossibility of fixing it without changes in the kernel. Can you help them solve their issue? Otherwise, this will become a chicken and egg problem.

This issue is already opened on the launchpad also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1662552 but with a different theme: networking.

Thank you,
Ciprian

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: snapd 2.42.1+18.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-96.97-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-96-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 19 20:00:56 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-17 (519 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: snapd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)