Firefox access to /mnt

[canada_eh]

This other thread discusses FF getting access to /media via: snap connect firefox:removable-media

But, how do you go about it for access to /mnt??

Is there a way to change access restrictions an already installed snap to specific devices/folders?? (i.e. /mnt/…)

Or… do I need to uninstall, and reinstall firefox manually using the ‘classic’ confinement (but then, what’s the point of using snap)? Do I need to create a custom ‘interface’? The documentation lost me pretty quickly.

Note: I installed this new version of FF using Ubuntu’s Software Center (I also have an older FF version manually installed and it works as usual).

[ogra]

there will be a “mnt” interface in 2.34… seems @zyga-snapd is working on that:

Interface:mnt

The mnt interface allows applications to see file systems mounted under the /mnt directory. The interface is not auto-connected but may be connected by the user. It shares some similarities with the home interface but it is not restricted on core systems and does not filter out dot files. Since: snapd 2.35 (estimated) PR: TBA This interface was merged into removable-media

[zyga-snapd]

I think it will slide to 2.35 though.

[canada_eh]

Great work on this tool!

I guess in the interim I’ll setup separate home directory for stuff being saved from FF and maybe chron a move to where they should be.

Kinda too bad snap doesn’t just have its own group though.

[ogra]

every snap has full access to ~/snap/<snapname>/current (i.e. for firefox that’s ~/snap/firefox/current, which is the app’s “home”) you could just create a “mnt” subdir in there and bind mount whatever you want from /mnt (or mount the disk directly there instead under /mnt) if you already think about cron jobs and such…

[niemeyer]

Note that the interface will likely be bundled with removable-media.

Let’s follow up this topic in:

/mnt mounts should be supported

/media mounts couldn’t be seen either by some apps, like Discord. Visual Studio Code works fine, however.