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firejail
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Sandboxing All the Things with Flatpak and BubbleBox
bubblewrap is designed as a low-level too. There is nothing quick and dirty about it. It disallows everything by default and you have to be explicit about what you want to share with the host. If your application needs complex permissions/resources, then you will need to have a complex bubblewrap command line.
Once you have figured out which permissions/resources you need for a given program, you can wrap the command line invocation in a shell script.
If you want other people to do the work of defining permissions/resources, then have a look at firejail: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail
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Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
Firejail is cool: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail
Linux namespaces/cgroups but nowhere near as heavy as Docker.
I use it when I want to limit the memory of a Python script:
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Toolship: A (More) Secure Workstation
Firejail can also be a useful option, though no good if you're on Mac https://firejail.wordpress.com/
Uses the same Linux primitives as docker etc, but can be a bit more ergonomic for this use case
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Firejail: Light, featureful and zero-dependency security sandbox for Linux
Firejail, Flatpak (which uses Bubblewrap under the hood), and Snap (which uses AppArmor) all use the same underlying technology: Linux namespaces.
This question comes up a lot, and has been answered here: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/wiki/Frequently-Asked-...
TL;DR: Firejail has much more comprehensive features than Flatpak (Bubblewrap). Firejail also has more comprehensive network support, support for AppArmor and SELinux, and easier seccomp filtering.
Compared to Snap (which uses AppArmor), Firejail is compatible with AppArmor and again goes above and beyond with a lot of additional features.
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Bubblewrap – Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak
Wonderful little tool, too bad you must chain various exec calling tools to get cgroups (a bit akin to `ionice ... nice ... cmd`) and Linux users namespaces can't allow UNIX sockets while preventing network access (I think?).
Migrated from Firejail when its complexity annoyed me too much and I hit https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/3001 (Firejail doesn't like parens or brackets in --put/--get parameters) to a badly NIH version using bwrap and bash to have "profiles":
- Firejail: Light featureful and zero-dependency security sandbox for Linux
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Do, or do not. There is no try
Firejail does this. The profile database is the two "profile" directories in https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/tree/master/etc
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Strange times make for strange friends...
What do you mean by a Firefox container? Do you mean FireJail?
firejail-profiles
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One-Click sandbox for every program
It is one-click just for programs with known profiles https://github.com/chiraag-nataraj/firejail-profiles It would be better if the sandbox asks when the program wants to access something and I grant the access just like android.
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What if someone stole my [FirefoxProfile]/cookies.sqlite?
I use firejail with custom profiles.
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Firefox multi-account containers alternative
Hell, if you're on Linux, you can use my private-profile.sh along with 'profile' files to generate temporary browser profiles, use certain profiles as 'template' profiles, or simply spawn an existing profile. I actually go a step further and use containers within separate profiles, where each profile has different extensions (for varying levels of privacy). As a last resort, I use my script to start a fresh temporary Firefox profile (usually for a site which breaks b/c of RFP/FPI/ETP/uBO/Containers lol).
What are some alternatives?
bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
bubblejail - Bubblewrap based sandboxing for desktop applications
Flatseal - Manage Flatpak permissions
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
opensnitch - OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.
namespaced-openvpn - Wrapper for OpenVPN on Linux solving various privacy issues
firewalld - Stateful zone based firewall daemon with D-Bus interface
chromium-web-store - Allows adding extensions from chrome web store on ungoogled-chromium. Also adds semi-automatic extension updating.