feat(glyph): obsidian vault filesystem MCP server#479
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Move obsidian-sync off the 'mu' user account onto a dedicated 'obsidian' system user (/var/lib/obsidian). obsidian-vault-mcp runs as the same user, so it has native read/write access to vault files without ACLs or permission hacks. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
obsidian-vault-mcpNixOS module: wrapspkgs.mcp-server-filesystemwithmcp-proxyto expose the Obsidian vault as a streamable-HTTP MCP server on port 8096, registered with mcpjungle asobsidian-vaultobsidian-syncoff themuuser onto a dedicatedobsidiansystem user (/var/lib/obsidian); both services share this user soobsidian-vault-mcphas native read/write access to vault files~/vault→/var/lib/obsidian/vaultDeployment
After switching, the obsidian-sync service will be broken until re-initialized under the new user. Run:
# Re-run sync setup as the new system user sudo -u obsidian HOME=/var/lib/obsidian ob sync-setup --path /var/lib/obsidian/vaultThen restart the service:
The old vault data at
~/vaultcan be removed once sync is confirmed working.Test plan
obsidian-syncservice starts and syncs vault to/var/lib/obsidian/vaultobsidian-vault-mcpservice starts and responds on port 8096obsidian-vaultserver