usb drive use case with flatpak

[Michael Gratton]

On Mon, 30 Sep, 2019 at 17:57, Winnie Poon 
<winniepoon_home at hotmail.com> wrote:
> i have this use case i want to do.   I'm running a client inside a 
> sandbox connecting to a remote host.   Now when i plug in my local 
> usb drive via my client, I want to be able to access the files  from 
> the remote host.  I know i need to punch hole.   Can i use the 
> --device to just open up usb?  or i need to do --device=all?
> 
> Thanks for any tips anyone can provide me!

Sounds like you need the device portal: 
<http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.Device>

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