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[Eric Holmi <empholmi@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about making it a privileged service? Like allowing an application
location access or camera access. The user could choose what apps store
what where.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Stefano Verzegnassi <
stefano92.100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> At the moment, only core apps (and system apps) are authorized to
> access the SD card.
> This has been debated a lot in the past, but it's surely a big
> limitation for those apps which would be forced to store a large
> amount of data in the internal storage (I'm using my Ubuntu Phone for
> recording audio tracks of my lessons, it's >160MB of OGG audio in a
> single day).
>
> Is there any plan to extend the current AppArmor policy, and register
> e.g. '/media/*/*/Ubuntu Apps/<app_id>' (or something similar) as
> writable location for storage, keeping the other folders in the SD
> card confined?
>
> Cheers,
> Stefano
>
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