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Sandboxed file access

Sandboxed file access

Posted Sep 6, 2012 18:59 UTC (Thu) by mhall119 (guest, #57124)
In reply to: Sandboxed file access by geofft
Parent article: Ubuntu's new app developer upload process proposal

Apps won't have access to the user's home directory by default, but they will have access to ~/.config/{appname}/ by default, which they can use to store configuration and user data.

My understanding of the private-data abstraction is that using it will prevent access to those directories (~/.gnupg, ~/.ssh, etc) even if some other abstraction (or helper) gives access to a parent directory (~/).


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Sandboxed file access

Posted Sep 7, 2012 8:59 UTC (Fri) by krake (subscriber, #55996) [Link]

Shouldn't they also get access too ~/.local/share/{appname} for storing data rather then config?

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