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  1. Bug #2061981
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 2061981

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Wouter Depuydt (wouterd) wrote :

1)
user_name@computer:~$ stat /home/department/user_name/
  File: /home/department/user_name/
  Size: 267 Blocks: 289 IO Block: 16384 directory
Device: 27h/39d Inode: 9542 Links: 146
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: (XXXXXXXXX/user_name) Gid: (YYYYYYYY/default_group)
Access: 2024-03-20 14:50:40.921533172 +0100
Modify: 2024-04-17 18:20:30.872510781 +0200
Change: 2024-04-17 18:20:30.872510781 +0200
 Birth: 2019-06-03 16:14:43.032386913 +0200

2) as far as I know, no apparmor specific denials.
The non-standard home directory is added to the apparmor ${HOMEDIRS} paramater
(see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/2061981/comments/3)

The only error message I get is:

user_name@computer:~$ chromium
cannot update snap namespace: cannot expand mount entry (none $HOME/.local/share none x-snapd.kind=ensure-dir,x-snapd.must-exist-dir=$HOME 0 0): cannot use invalid home directory "/home/department/user_name": permission denied
snap-update-ns failed with code 1