The "proper fix" may never arrive because sandboxing is core feature of snaps and blocking access to dotfiles is inherent part of sandbox. So from snap perspective your workflow is invalid.
There are two solutions: adjust your workflow or abandon chromium snap. It's up to you what you choose. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1850088 Title: permission denied when opening a mounted folder in save file dialog Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After upgrading to Ubuntu 19.10, when I tried to open a file into a sshfs-mounted folder inside my home folder, it says permission denied. This didn't happen at Ubuntu 19.04. Steps to reproduce: 1. Use sshfs to mount a sftp folder on an empty folder inside my home drive (e.g. ~/.server) 2. Create a soft link in the home folder to a folder inside the mounted sftp file system (e.g. ~/server > .server/home/michael ) 3. Open chromium 4. Download a file 5. Enter that folder in the file dialog Expected result: I can enter the folder Actual result: It says permission denied ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: chromium-browser 77.0.3865.120-0ubuntu1~snap1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-19.20-generic 5.3.1 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE DRM.card1-HDMI-A-1: enabled: disabled dpms: Off status: disconnected edid-base64: modes: DRM.card1-VGA-1: enabled: enabled dpms: On status: connected edid-base64: AP///////wBBDGbAJEYAAA8WAQNuMx14LspFpFZLnCUSUFS9SwDRwLMAlQCBgJUPAQEBAQEBAjqAGHE4LUBYLEUA/R4RAAAeAAAA/wBVSEIxMjE1MDE3OTU2AAAA/ABQaGlsaXBzIDIzNENMAAAA/QA4TB5TEQAKICAgICAgAHs= modes: 1920x1080 1680x1050 1280x1024 1280x1024 1440x900 1440x900 1024x768 1024x768 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 640x480 640x480 720x400 Date: Mon Oct 28 10:14:27 2019 DiskUsage: Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg0-root ext4 230G 190G 29G 87% / tmpfs tmpfs 7.8G 165M 7.6G 3% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/vg0-root ext4 230G 190G 29G 87% / InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-03 (1119 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) MachineType: ASUS All Series ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-19-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro quiet splash resume=/dev/vg0/swap vt.handoff=7 Snap.ChromeDriverVersion: ChromeDriver 78.0.3904.70 (edb9c9f3de0247fd912a77b7f6cae7447f6d3ad5-refs/branch-heads/3904@{#800}) Snap.ChromiumVersion: Chromium 78.0.3904.70 snap SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-10-25 (2 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 08/13/2014 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 2105 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: H81M-E dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2105:bd08/13/2014:svnASUS:pnAllSeries:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnH81M-E:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.family: ASUS MB dmi.product.name: All Series dmi.product.sku: All dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1850088/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
