Tight Firejail profiles
This is a collection of tighter firejail (https://github.com/netblue30/firejail) profiles for certain applications. These may or may not work on your computer since some of them use seccomp filters, which may depend on architecture and OS. These were designed on Debian sid/experimental x86_64.
I am slowly switching the profiles to use a common.inc
file so that maintenance becomes easier and I cut down on duplicate stuff.
Just a note: I would highly recommend using systemd
to sandbox system processes. I personally do not use firejail
to sandbox system processes since I'm using systemd
to start the process anyway (so it's easier to use the sandboxing capabilities of systemd
itself).
Currently there is one utility file in this repository: gen_libraries
. gen_libraries
is a collection of bash
functions which helps dynamically resolve the libraries needed by a program in a more powerful way than the built-in one shipped with firejail
. Most pertinently, it allows passing a folder as the first argument, in which case it will use find
to locate all files within the folder and run ldd
on each of them. This makes it easier, say, to compile a list for firefox
.
An example script, firefox.common
, which makes use of gen_libraries
is provided in this repository as well. You should edit $FXLIBDIR
and $GENLIB
to point to your firefox
lib directory (defaults to /usr/lib/firefox
) and the gen_libraries
script (default ~/scripts/gen_libraries
) or disable private-lib
generation by setting $PRIVLIB
to 0
. The script has the following features:
- It can simply load a profile (pass the path to the profile as the first argument and
0
as the second and third arguments). - It can create a temporary profile which is completely empty (pass the path to any profile as the first argument,
1
as the second argument, and0
as the third argument). - It can create a temporary profile and copy over files from another profile (pass the path to the profile which you wish to copy files from as the first argument and
1
as the second and third arguments). You can edit the list of files and folders to be copied over by editing the$TOCOPY
variable. - It can ask
firejail
to create a new network namespace for the specified interface (pass the interface name as the fourth argument, pass "" if you don't want a network namespace). You can (should) also editvpncmd
which should check for a VPN connection and disable the new network namespace (if requested) automatically. One example withsystemctl
is provided.
You can disable the systemd
specific parts of the script by setting $USE_SYSTEMD
to 0
. You may also need to edit the list of additional libraries (the second argument to compile_list
), since that list is what works for me on my system but may not be enough on yours.
Another example script, dropbox
, is also provided which uses gen_libraries
to dynamically generate the library dependencies needed to get dropbox
working with a private-lib
filter.
Yet another example script, google-earth-pro
, is provided which uses gen_libraries
to dynamically generate the library dependencies needed to get google-earth-pro
working with a private-lib
filter. Also note that due to some issues with google-earth-pro
, the script manually removes the lock file generated by Google Earth after quitting.
List of currently-supported programs:
- Ardour 5
- Akregator
- aMule
- Blender
- Brackets
- BRL-CAD (experimental) - use the generator script
brlcad-gen.sh
to generate aliased profiles and setup theprivate-bin
predicate. - Calligra
- Darktable
- Dia
- Discord
- Dropbox
- Fetchmail
- Firefox (regular and ESR)
- Flameshot
- Flowblade
- Fontforge
- FreeCAD
- Geany
- Gerbera
- GIMP
- Git
- Google Chrome
- Google Earth Pro
- Gradio
- Hugin
- ImageJ
- Inkscape
- Kdenlive
- Libreoffice
- Linphone
- LMMS
- Luminance HDR
- Macrofusion
- Messenger For Desktop
- MPD
- MPV
- MuPDF
- Mutt
- Natron (thanks @triceratops1!)
- Newsboat
- OpenShot
- Pidgin
- Qemu (VMs should be stored in
${HOME}/qemu-vms
or editqemu-system-common.profile
to whitelist the folder you store your VMs in) - profiles included forqemu-system-{i386,x86_64}
, but you can create your own by building off ofqemu-system-common.profile
- QPDFView
- Ricochet
- Scribus
- Scrot
- Shotcut
- Signal Desktop
- Skype
- Slack Desktop
- SSH
- Synfig Studio
- Telegram Desktop
- Tor Browser Bundle (through the torbrowser-launcher package on Debian)
- Tor Browser profile for Arch (thanks @robotanarchy!)
- Viber
- Viewnior
- Virtualbox
- Generic terminal emulator (the profile is called x-terminal-emulator because of the /etc/alternatives system in Debian)
- Xfburn
- Youtube-dl
- Zart (thanks @triceratops1!)