Request to auto-connect removable-media to bw (bitwarden cli)

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Hi,

I’m looking into merging [PM-2539] Allow cli snap to access home and removable-media by jmlrt · Pull Request #5577 · bitwarden/clients · GitHub such that Bitwarden users can create vault exports to removeable media (as encrypted backups - a frequent use-case). To enable users to do this, auto-connection of the removable-media plug is needed for BW (Install bw on Linux | Snap Store) , as there is no appropriate portal to grant access to a specific filepath dynamically.

Considerations from my side after reading what is typically granted this permission

  • major browsers and email clients (rationale: the software is designed with security and user privacy in mind)

While not a browser, nor an email client, Bitwarden is certainly designed with user privacy and security in mind.

For the secondary considerations:

  • the application itself is a mature, well-known application
  • the snap’s (vetted) publisher is a mature, well-known entity
  • the snap’s (vetted) publisher is the upstream of the software

I believe all of these apply.

Thank you!

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This seems a legitimate use-case to me, thus +1 from me to grant auto-connect of the interface removable-media to bitwarden-cli snap

thanks

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Pending vetting, +1 from me given that encrypted backups are a frequent use case for the snap. I also think that the use of removable-media should be mentioned in the snap description so that user’s know that their removable media can be accessed via the snap

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+2 votes for, 0 votes against, granting auto-connect of interface removable-media. I will begin publisher vetting.

@quexten - Could you please provide your github account associated with the upstream project.

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My github account user name is same as here - quexten - contributions here: Pull requests · bitwarden/clients · GitHub and I’m part of the bitwarden github org. Also, here is the PR that adds the removable-media plug to the snap manifest [PM-2539] Allow cli snap to access home and removable-media by jmlrt · Pull Request #5577 · bitwarden/clients · GitHub - it is a community PR that I reviewed. Let me know if there is anything else you need.

Beware I’m not part of the build-release-engineering team that directly manage the snap releases. I can ping them to also reach out here if necessary though.

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The publisher is now vetted, auto-connect of interface removable-media is now live.

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