Good evening
Why are the permissions on the .snap squashfs files located within /var/lib/snapd/snaps/ so restrictive? They are set to rw------- root root. Would there be a disadvantage if they were set to rw-r--r-- root root? If not, I propose that the files be given these permissions so normal users can inspect the files without having to elevate to root.
Best regards
Daniel
These files all get automatically mounted in /snap where you can just use ls or cd to inspect the content…
I don’t necessarily want to mount them, I want to do other things with them.
I’m not talking about you mounting them, if a file lies in that dir it is also mounted in /snap, this is a hard-wired thing, like a bunch of other actions that happen around these files when they get into this dir…
If you want to see their content you can do so without special permission via /snap …
If you want to do any other things with them you should always make pretty sure all the hard-wired things are gone first by using the snap disable command on them, else you might harm your system…
I agree the permission seems to be unnecessarily strict.
In my case I would probably want to copy the package to my own folder, extract it using unsquashfs, and repack it for testing.
Well… Is using sudo cp vs cp so much harder ?
While it isn’t necessarily needed that the files have such strict permissions, it isn’t actually a bad thing either to have them strict…
