Comment 5 for bug 1620771
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| Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote Re: /home symlink, snaps don't work | #5 |
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Current design of snap-confine makes using symbolic links as the home directory problematic. Snap-confine itself is heavily confined to prevent abuse (as it is a seguid-root executable) and snap-confine carefully avoids traversing symbolic links implicitly. Even when we do the apparmor profile for snap-confine prevents it from performing certain operations, this includes arbitrary source and destination of various mount operations it performs internally.
As a quick workaround, I suspect that you can bind mount custom home directory back to your regular directory (see mount --bind /source /destination) and this should allow you to have the desired data layout and the ability to execute snaps.