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I'm trying to use sshfs to open a remote directory in the Spotify snap application on Linux Mint.

sshfs -o allow_other [email protected]:/remote/dir /local/dir

I've mounted my directory using the "allow_other" fuse option, and the directory opens without having to use sudo in terminal and file explorer. However, when I try adding it as a directory in Spotify for local files, the file explorer gives me this message:

Spotify error

Any advice on fixing this? I've tried modifying the permissions of the folder and "default_permissions" option, no luck yet.

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  • According to sshfs(1), the option is actually named --allow_others (trailing 's'), and it should be used with -o default_permissions. Have you tried that?
    – ewhac
    Jul 6, 2020 at 20:45
  • Which users are running sshfs and Spotify (and the file picker you're showing)? Is AppArmor enabled on your system? Also, to make allow_other be effective when used by non-root users, user_allow_other has to be uncommented in /etc/fuse.conf (see the manual for fuse(8)).
    – fra-san
    Jul 6, 2020 at 21:24
  • I assume it's all running on the same user, since I'm opening Spotify and running sshfs on the same computer (and user). Though the Spotify app is a snap application and I'm not running that from terminal, so could that make a difference? Also, I did already uncomment user_allow_other Also how do I check if AppArmor is enabled on Linux Mint?
    – Jonathan Ting
    Jul 6, 2020 at 21:29
  • I ran aa-status and saw that a few profiles with snapd in the directory name are in enforce mode. Could that be why? EDIT: One of them is snap.spotify.spotify,
    – Jonathan Ting
    Jul 6, 2020 at 21:35

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Seems like snap applications don't allow me to disable the AppArmor protection easily. Thankfully, Spotify for Linux had a 2nd version as a Debian package which didn't have the same issue. Not technically solved but solved enough for me!

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