_Originally created by @intrigeri on [#8950 (Redmine)](https://public-redmine-archive.tails.boum.org/code/issues/8950)_ We share this directory (with libvirt FS sharing) and then do stuff like `I copy the sample videos to "/home/amnesia/Persistent" as user "amnesia"`. If the Git repository was cloned or updated with a strict umask, then I see: ``` Failed to copy file: cp: cannot open `/tmp/shared_video_dir/video.mp4' for reading: Permission denied (MiniTest::Assertion) ./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:755:in `/^I copy "([^"]+)" to "([^"]+)" as user "([^"]+)"$/' ``` I’ve also been told that the 9p FS sharing fails if `features/misc_files` itself isn’t readable by libvirt (possibly because of parent directories’ permission, by the way). I think this requirement should at least be written down somewhere, and ideally the test suite would check if it’s satisfied before running stuff that will fail otherwise. I don’t think we can automatically “fix” those permissions without doing dangerous things like recursively making all parent directories world-readable. This just hit me on isotester1.lizard, so I’m making this a subticket of tails/tails#8539 => kytv, anonym: we need an assignee on it. Feature Branch: test/8950-fs-shares-from-temp-dir Parent Task: tails/tails#8539