Accessing unix users and groups from a strict snap

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@jdstrand

You are right that /var/lib/misc/group.db would be from the snap and not the host because /var/lib/misc is not bind mounted from the host into the snap. This would require a change to snap-confine. I guess you are using ldap with cached credentials? Can you describe the environment more?

Yes exactly, we are using userdir-ldap with cached credentials.
In /var/lib/misc we have group.db, passw.db, shadow.db and authorized ssh keys.