Password protection on flatpak apps

Krrish Dhaneja

2/18/24, 3:32 AM

I found a bash script to password protect one of my flatpak apps but it doesn't seem to work, please tell me where I got it wrong script->

#!/bin/bash
read -s -p "Enter password: " PASSWORD
flatpak run com.example.app --password="$PASSWORD"

now since I wanted this script to run every time I open the app, I found out that I need to do changes in the .desktop file of that app, so I changed the Exec line in that file accordingly

Exec=/home/user/scripts/password-script.sh flatpak run com.example.app

I tried running this, but it didn't work, is there anything that I am missing? My OS is Ubuntu 22.04 and the app is saved in the .local/share/flatpak/app directory since I made a user installation. Any help would be appreciated.

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Terrance

2/18/24, 3:37 AM

Since your script is a bash script have you told the desktop file `Terminal=True`?

Krrish Dhaneja

2/18/24, 4:16 AM

I dont think so i have, lemme try

Krrish Dhaneja

2/18/24, 6:13 AM

@Terrance i tried it but it didnt work either

Terrance

2/18/24, 6:19 AM

Sorry, I just noticed that you are running the flatpak twice. Once in the script and once outside the script. You probably need to remove the call outside of the script.

Krrish Dhaneja

2/18/24, 3:31 PM

Ill try that too wait

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