opensnitch VS firejail

Can't forget about OpenSnitch, for those of you that would rather not buy a license to do this sorta thing: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

I was working on an old game; trying to understand its Network protocol, and how the binary behavior when something on the connections goes wrong, and something comes to my mind: "What if I could block the traffic to this server only for this process?" what brings me to OpenSnitch.

Have you seen OpenSnitch? https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

It's a Linux project that's replication what Little Snitch does on macOS - it doesn't decrypt TLS secured data but it does show and allow blocking of network connections (even if it can't see exactly what's going on inside this connections).

Combining eCapture features with OpenSnitch would be awesome. It'd be great if as well as tracking all network connection, you could flag connections sending specific data (like your name, email address, or phone number) to unexpected servers.

opensnitch has existed for a while now. I've never used it, so I can't comment on how well it works.

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

If you prefer a GUI try https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

Do you happen to know if the overlayfs bug that upset the firejail developers has been fixed yet? https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/discussions/4178

Perhaps firejail is dead? There's been no releases in 18 months.

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

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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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

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.

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":