Firejail – links and notes

For the latest in jailing untrusted applications away from your display and your data, and all without needing any virtual machine support, here are a few notes from the Sandboxing The Herbert Kilpin talk…

The Firejail manual and tutorial:

Firewarden script:

For my own use I slightly modified the script to place the temporary home not in /tmp but in ~/tmp and added a mandatory “-no-remote” option for firefox.

The most up to date profiles are at:

These might be necessary if you combine a stable but old distro and significantly newer versions of selected applications (like Nigel’s Antix). However, in that case I’d suggest upgrading Firejail to the latest version as well.

Stay safe!

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