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Indeed, and most flatpaks have access to the home directory so are also able to do this even though they're """sandboxed"""
by 0l 17d ago
Indeed, and most flatpaks have access to the home directory so are also able to do this even though they're """sandboxed"""
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- Arrowmaster 17d agoI don't think flatpak allows access to hidden files so even those with access $HOME cannot do this.
- silver_sun 17d agoFlatpak uses Portals to let the user grant access to different files/directories, apparently they don't have access by default: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html I was also unable to find any Flatpak that has access to the home directory when installed, you may well be right but I couldn't find any. I used Flatseal to verify the permissions: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal I'm also of the opinion that we generally shouldn't use software that we don't absolutely trust. That has kept my .bashrc (and other files) safe so far.
- 0l 17d agoTo be fair it's possible the situation has changed since I last checked. But at least it used to be this way (https://flatkill.org/2020/ https://flatkill.org/2020/). I'm glad the situation has improved in terms of security, but I'm still not a big fan of the flatpak design as a whole.