[Nottingham] Firejail links

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Nigel, can you run this in a terminal and post the output until the point of failure:

firejail --private firefox


On June 29, 2019 3:06:11 PM UTC, NIGEL Black via Nottingham <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>Vadim,
>
>My apologies for leaving your presentation early.  You'd just reached
>the part on Firejail which I particularly wanted to know about, so
>thanks for the links.  I've not had much opportunity for looking deeper
>into them but found that Firejail and Firefox don't work on Mint 19 as
>well as on Antix.  Attempts to run Firefox return the message "profiles
>missing or inaccessible".  It looks like a case for downloading them.
>
>I'll let you know if I'm successful!
>
>Regards,
>
>Nigel 
>> On 22 June 2019 at 10:40 VM via Nottingham
><nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Firejail manual and tutorial:
>> 
>> https://firejail.wordpress.com
>> 
>>
>https://www.linuxlinks.com/essential-system-tools-firejail-security-sandboxing/
>> 
>> Firewarden script: https://github.com/pigmonkey/firewarden
>> 
>> 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
>> https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/tree/master/etc
>> 
>> 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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