Bubblewrap – Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak

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  • bubblewrap

    Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

  • bubblejail

    Bubblewrap based sandboxing for desktop applications

  • Also of interest is https://github.com/igo95862/bubblejail , a less low level program on top of bubblewrap.

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  • firejail

    Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

  • 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":

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