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KevinRineerHello good folks!15:05
KevinRineerI'm running into frustrations with a set of systems which have home directories on NFS and I wanted to see if you all thought this was normal behavior or a bug.15:05
KevinRineerTo provision home directories automatically for new users to the systems (which happens every academic semester), I normally have the NFS server /not/ root squashing for a temporary amount of time in between semesters, so than pam_mkhomedir.so can automatically create a directory with the right perms and uid after a user authenticates via the15:05
KevinRineerdomain.15:05
KevinRineerIt seems that decision of mine makes it so that, when I switch back to root squashing for the NFS server after two weeks from the start of a semester, snaps run into some kind of permission issue (cannot open path of the current working directory: Permission denied). I see no apparmor messages in the dmesg output or systemD journal about such an15:05
KevinRineerevent, so troubleshooting the root cause is not easy.15:05
KevinRineerIf this is weird, I'm happy to post a bug report with more information and/or start a forum post. There are just so many forum posts about snaps and homedirs that I don't know which would be ideal.15:08

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