Accessing a specific location

[Bertrand CHEVRIER]

I was expecting this answer.

If I understand well the architecture, the webbrowser-app needs to declare
the bookmark file as an export through the ContentHub and then only I can
access it (also through the ContentHub).

Thank you for the clarification.

2016-06-02 19:50 GMT+02:00 Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy at canonical.com>:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Bertrand CHEVRIER
> <chevrier.bertrand at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm in the process of developing a scope. The goal is to list the
> bookmarks
> > from the webbrowser-app.
> >
> > After reading the documentation and reading the setting up my
> environment,
> > this seems pretty straight forward, except that I don't know how to
> access
> > the bookmark database within a confined env.
> >
> > Basically I need to read (or copy) the file
> > /home/phablet/.local/share/webbrowser-
> > app/bookmarks.sqlite
> >
> > I went through the documentation of the AppArmor but it seems none of the
> > policy group allows me to do that, right ?
> >
> > So what would be the way to access this file (in read only) from my
> scope ?
>
> That’s not allowed for confined applications/scopes.
> Only webbrowser-app (and unconfined processes) is allowed to
> read/write to /home/phablet/.local/share/webbrowser-app/.
>
> What would be needed is for the browser to grow a content export
> capability to expose its bookmarks database. That feature doesn’t
> exist at the moment and isn’t planned though.
>
> Another approach would be to have that scope be part of the
> webbrowser-app package, so that it gets the same permissions as the
> browser app.
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Olivier
>



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