Accessing a specific location

[Michael Hall]

Working with Olivier (developer of webbrowser-app) to include your scope
as part of the same package would be awesome!

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com

On 06/02/2016 01:50 PM, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
> 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
>