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I have set up sssd and joined my 18.04 LTS workstation to the company domain. Most things work OK except for a couple of snap applications. When trying to run them I get errors creating files in ~/snap.

:~$ skype cannot create user data directory: /home/[domain]/[user]/snap/skype/48: Permission denied

Skype works if I run it as root, however I would prefer not to do that.

The mail app hiri however refuses to let me write in it even if I club it with chmod -R 777

~$ hiri cannot create user data directory: /home/[domain]/[user]/snap/hiri/55: Permission denied

What am I missing?

Paul O'Rorke
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  • Are [domain] and [user] actually there, ,[] and all, or is this an obfuscation? – waltinator Aug 10 '18 at 05:31
  • My pathlld script will show you more information. https://github.com/waltinator/pathlld.git - Bash script to answer "Why can't I read/write that file?" – waltinator Aug 10 '18 at 05:33
  • Hi waltinator,

    thanks for the respone. [doman] and [user] are indeed obfuscations. Perhaps I'm being overly cautious there?

    Output: https://pastebin.com/WZYstUb6

     – Paul O'Rorke Aug 10 '18 at 21:28
  • I am seeing this permissions failure with more and more snap apps. Inkscape now.

    Does anyone know how to fix this? Am I the only one with this issue?

     – Paul O'Rorke Aug 30 '18 at 21:07

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The issue is due to the user home folder being part of the domain.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure apparmor

Then, specify "/home/[DOMAIN]/" as an additional user home directory. This should resolve the permission issue for all the applications

Shravya Boggarapu
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