Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-14 Thread Brian Durant
On 7/14/22 12:09 PM, Zé Loff wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 09:44:20AM +0200, Brian Durant wrote: The browser issue has returned. An open dialog window to upload a file or to open a file cannot find the downloads directory and it is impossible to access by using "recents" or "computer" in the

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-14 Thread Zé Loff
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 09:44:20AM +0200, Brian Durant wrote: > The browser issue has returned. An open dialog window to upload a file or to > open a file cannot find the downloads directory and it is impossible to > access by using "recents" or "computer" in the open dialog window. Not sure >

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-14 Thread Brian Durant
The browser issue has returned. An open dialog window to upload a file or to open a file cannot find the downloads directory and it is impossible to access by using "recents" or "computer" in the open dialog window. Not sure what is going on, but it sure is irritating.

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-13 Thread Brian Durant
On 7/13/22 12:05 AM, Courtney wrote: This is definitely an unveil issue. Not an issue though, it's by design. If you try to download a file both Firefox and Chromium won't know where to save it. By default, they can read/write to ~/Downloads like others have said. However, I think I know the

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-12 Thread Courtney
This is definitely an unveil issue. Not an issue though, it's by design. If you try to download a file both Firefox and Chromium won't know where to save it. By default, they can read/write to ~/Downloads like others have said. However, I think I know the issue you are encountering. I recall

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-11 Thread Brian Durant
Actually, there is one major difference between the two systems that I had forgotten about. While both use the Calm window manager, the system that is experiencing problems with the browser file dialogs, uses PCManFM...

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-11 Thread Brian Durant
On 7/11/22 17:53, Stuart Henderson wrote: > I guess your locate database was last generated when firefox was > installed but chromium was not > >> Wondering if something else is at play here... > grep unveil /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/* > > ls /etc/*/*unveil* $ grep unveil

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-11 Thread Mihai Popescu
> ... how to rectify it is beyond my capabilities as a new OpenBSD user. First of all, there is nothing to rectify. All was done to act like this and to serve a specific purpose. Much work and developers' efforts were poured into this, again with a specific great purpose ( hint: security

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022-07-11, Brian Durant wrote: > On 7/11/22 15:25, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2022-07-11, Björn Gohla wrote: >>> >>> Brian Durant writes: >>> I have a problem with both Firefox and Chromium being unable to access the file system using the "open" dialog. The dialog appears, but

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-11 Thread Brian Durant
On 7/11/22 15:25, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2022-07-11, Björn Gohla wrote: >> >> Brian Durant writes: >> >>> I have a problem with both Firefox and Chromium being unable to access >>> the file system using the "open" dialog. The dialog appears, but no >>> files or directories appear

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022-07-11, Björn Gohla wrote: > > Brian Durant writes: > >> I have a problem with both Firefox and Chromium being unable to access >> the file system using the "open" dialog. The dialog appears, but no >> files or directories appear regardless of path. Things function > [...] > > This sounds

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-11 Thread Brian Durant
On 7/11/22 14:40, Björn Gohla wrote: > > Brian Durant writes: > >> I have a problem with both Firefox and Chromium being unable to access >> the file system using the "open" dialog. The dialog appears, but no >> files or directories appear regardless of path. Things function > [...] > >

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-11 Thread Björn Gohla
Brian Durant writes: > I have a problem with both Firefox and Chromium being unable to access > the file system using the "open" dialog. The dialog appears, but no > files or directories appear regardless of path. Things function [...] This sounds like an unveil(2) issue. Only white-listed

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022-07-11, Brian Durant wrote: > I have a problem with both Firefox and Chromium being unable to access > the file system using the "open" dialog. The dialog appears, but no > files or directories appear regardless of path. Things function normally > however, with both Midori and

Re: Browser access to file system on new install OpenBSD missing.

2022-07-11 Thread Wim
Perhaps you run them in sandbox mode ? Kind regards Wim Brian Durant schreef op 11 juli 2022 08:46:21 CEST: >I have a problem with both Firefox and Chromium being unable to access the >file system using the "open" dialog. The dialog appears, but no files or >directories appear regardless of