[pkg-apparmor] Bug#882048: apparmor should let thunderbird use signatures from files

Vincas Dargis vindrg at gmail.com
Sat Nov 18 22:54:45 UTC 2017


On 2017.11.18 23:24, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:>> Anyway, I believe change to allow Thunderbird to read arbitrary 
dot-files or directories will not gonna happen,
> 
> But surely a rule for ~/.signature* is an exception? The use of ~/.signature is an ancient convention, the default for 
> many email clients, and thus required for interoperability. Expanding this to ~/.signature* seems straightforward and 
> should not introduce any security concerns.

Hm, this means that `deny @{HOME}/.* r,` has to go. It will bring back the noisy denies, but I see no other solution.

Let's wait for Thunderbird and AppArmor maintainers comments.



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