This new permission exposes the host /dev, which is normally not visible
even with --device=all, as it is not really a device node but rather
a bunch of shared memory blocks available on the host.
This access is needed by jack, as explained at:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1509
Long term I think a better solution for pro audio (like pipewire) is
a better solution, but for now we should at least allow jack apps to work.
This means sandboxes with dbus access can use portals etc, but they can't
talk to the main app, or impersonate it, but you can still use dbus and
well-known names to talk to them if needed.
It does mean however that if you use this, different sandboxes can see each
other on the bus, so be careful.
In version 0.99.1 (065053775b) flatpak
stopped inheriting permissions from the runtime, because that made
the story about application permissions way to complicated. What
we want is to have a static set of permissions for the app that
is frozen at install time.
However, inheriting permissions from the runtime makes a lot of sense
as certain permissions are required from the runtime, in particular this
is used by the kde runtime to read the kdeglobals file, etc.
So, to combine the best of the two worlds, we now do inherit permissions,
but at build-time (and you can disable it if you want). This way
kde apps don't have to repeat themselves, but we still get static
application permissions.
Closes: #2230
Approved by: alexlarsson
SSH authentication sockets can be placed in a number of places, so it
is difficult for applications to just mount a fixed directory or
directories, hoping that SSH_AUTH_SOCK points somewhere inside the
mounted content.
Closes: #1764
Approved by: alexlarsson
This gives access to AF_BLUETOOTH sockets in the seccomp rules. You additionally
need to give network access for the sockets to really work, because the
kernel doesn't (yet) namespace bluetooth sockets.
Closes: #1721
Approved by: alexlarsson
This also adds a call to this from flatpak build, although it is
not (yet) strictly necessary as all the flags it sets so far
are always set when building. This may change in the future though.
Closes: #1721
Approved by: alexlarsson
