Verified the usage of root's data dirs when running via sudo: fgimenez@innsmouth:~$ apt-cache policy snapd snapd: Installed: 2.15.2ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.15.2ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.15.2ubuntu1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.14.2~16.04 500 500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 2.0.2 500 500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages fgimenez@innsmouth:~$ rm -rf $HOME/snap fgimenez@innsmouth:~$ sudo /snap/bin/test-snapd-tools.env | grep SNAP_ SNAP_COMMON=/var/snap/test-snapd-tools/common SNAP_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/lib/snapd/lib/gl: SNAP_USER_DATA=/root/snap/test-snapd-tools/3 SNAP_REVISION=3 SNAP_VERSION=1.0 SNAP_DATA=/var/snap/test-snapd-tools/3 SNAP_ARCH=amd64 SNAP_USER_COMMON=/root/snap/test-snapd-tools/common SNAP_REEXEC= SNAP_NAME=test-snapd-tools fgimenez@innsmouth:~$ ls $HOME/snap ls: cannot access '/home/fgimenez/snap': No such file or directory fgimenez@innsmouth:~$ sudo stat -c '%U' /root/snap root
There are also passing automated tests about this feature, this is the test [1] and these are the results [2] (search for "tests/main /regression-home-snap-root-owned"). [1] https://github.com/mvo5/snappy/blob/7a4bead6970dd76d8cffdf67266833785b2eb1c3/tests/main/regression-home-snap-root-owned/task.yaml [2] https://travis-ci.org/snapcore/snapd/jobs/161619736 ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623579 Title: [SRU] 2.15.2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1623579/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs