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Ubuntu 24.10 To Enhance Snap Permissions Handling

([Ubuntu] 6 Hours Ago Ubuntu 24.10 Snap Permissions)


With the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release, Canonical is introducing permission prompting for more control over Snap access to systems to enhance security.

Without any Snap / binary modifications, more fine-grained access control via permission prompting is being introduced to Ubuntu 24.10. This greater Snap control relies on AppArmor and a new FLutter-based user interface for handling the access prompts. The Ubuntu Security Center can also be used for managing prompt rules and various app permissions.

Here's some screenshots from Canonical of the current state of the Security Center and the greater permission controls around Snaps:

For Ubuntu 24.10 the permissions handling is an opt-in experimental option. Moving forward Canonical plans for better integration, improved rule management summaries, covering additional Snap interfaces like camera and microphone access, and smarter client side analysis of prompts.

More details on this new permissions handling for Snaps in Ubuntu 24.10 via [1]this Ubuntu Discourse post .



[1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-s-24-10-dev-cycle-part-5-introducing-permissions-prompting/47963


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The Least Perceptive Literary Critic
The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax. A
most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to
give a public reading of his latest poem.
Pope, the leading poet of his day, was greatly surprised when Lord
Halifax stopped him four or five times and said, "I beg your pardon, Mr.
Pope, but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me."
Pope was rendered speechless, as this fine critic suggested sizeable
and unwise emendations to his latest masterpiece. "Be so good as to mark
the place and consider at your leisure. I'm sure you can give it a better
turn."
After the reading, a good friend of Lord Halifax, a certain Dr.
Garth, took the stunned Pope to one side. "There is no need to touch the
lines," he said. "All you need do is leave them just as they are, call on
Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observation
on those passages, and then read them to him as altered. I have known him
much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event."
Pope took his advice, called on Lord Halifax and read the poem
exactly as it was before. His unique critical faculties had lost none of
their edge. "Ay", he commented, "now they are perfectly right. Nothing can
be better."
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"