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Hi all,</div>
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i must be missing something so please help to clear my confusion.</div>
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What's the point of packaging an app as flatpak app with restricted permissions, when users can easily open up any permissions by doing :<br>
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flatpak run --filesystem=host ....<br>
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or use override to permanently override an app's permissions.</div>
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So we package an app in a nice bubble wrap, give it to user and user can remove the whole bubble wrap? or can the user?</div>
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For snap, seems like they have something called a "developer mode", does flatpak has something like that so a "regular" user cannot easily override the permissions?<br>
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<pre>--------------------------<br>Developer mode<br>Sometimes it is helpful when developing a snap to not have to worry about the security sandbox in order to <br>focus on developing the snap. To support this, snappy allows installing the snap in developer mode <br>which puts the security policy in complain mode (where violations against security policy are logged, <br>but permitted). <br>For example:<span></span>sudo snap install --devmode <snap></pre>
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Thanks for your time again!</div>
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Regards,</div>
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Winnie<br>
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