firejail

sandbox to restrict the application environment
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Firejail is a SUID security sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf. It allows a process and all its descendants to have their own private view of the globally shared kernel resources, such as the network stack, process table, mount table.
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killercoke 3 months ago

I love it but the software manager has it the program as 3 years out of date. This package needs updating to most recent 0.9.72 which is a year old now. Works very good for firefox but personaly made alot of modifications like building a script that passing commands so I do not have to type it out or have to do stuff manually so it is more seemless and intergrated to make this more basic user and everyday driveable. I run with firejail all the time and haven't rean into any issues. So great product, just Mint needs to update the repo!

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Basicuser 2 years ago

If you see a soldier going to war and say – no i don t take my gun -what do you think about him? If you see a father giving his 4 year old kid a loaded gun for play- what do you think about him? There where 2 comments here made me super scared to use firejail. On the other hand every computer expert strongly advises a sandbox, especially if you want to browse the internet. As I am on basic level on computers and linux i overthrew myself and installed firejail- but carefully and step by step. And what can I say-- I WORKS WONDERFUL- never experiencing any problems. So my conclusion about firejail: It is like a loaded gun against all these terrorists infecting the NET: INEVITABLY- BUT HANDLE WITH CARE!

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CtrlAltieDel 3 years ago

Hi, RIH, it isn't that hard to leave a review!

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Snarf 3 years ago

Holy Moly this severely screwed up my Mint 20.2. It seems maybe the default profiles are incorrect for this version of Mint.

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JABS99 5 years ago

It corrupted a number of my software programs. I am running Linux Mint 19.1 and it destroyed Thunderbird, LibreOffice (all packages), Firefox and the computers it was loaded on were really screwed up. I about lost my mind trying to figure out what had caused the computers to be so messed up. Finally I uninstalle Firejail and the computers were all fine after that.

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governmint 6 years ago

It totally killed my Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.3 I had to rebuild my system. NOT recommanded.

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JR86 6 years ago

Highly recommended. Essential for anyone wanting to enhance online security.

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Howling_Wolf 7 years ago

A must have for those who are intended to try experimental features and third party softwares.

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old-geek 7 years ago

Great simple piece of software adding an extra layer of security.