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Annoying popups #3197

Open sciurius opened 6 years ago

sciurius commented 6 years ago

My linux desktop is always on and logged in. Since a couple of days, [I presume since a keybase update was applied] each morning I find a couple of pop-ups "You accessed a public folder" on my screen. This may be the result of some file system scan that is executed nightly, but I never got these pop-ups, and --scaringly-- some of the pop-ups involve people that I totally do not know.

What is going on?

strib commented 6 years ago

@sciurius: you likely have something that scans your home directory (like a backup program) which isn't configured to skip over mountpoints? So it ends up scanning the public directory, causing popups. Does that sound possible? Can you configure that program to exclude mountpoints? For example, duplicity has a --exclude-other-filesystems flag.

sciurius commented 6 years ago

Yes, I do have several file scanning tools that run nightly. But I never got the pop-ups until very recently. Did keybase change this?

strib commented 6 years ago

Yes, we moved the true mountpoint on Linux from /keybase to ~/.local/share/keybase/fs, in order to fix a security issue. We are considering moving it elsewhere, as problems like this keep showing up.