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Firejail now supports X11 sandboxing

81 pointsby rahielabout 9 years ago

3 comments

Jasper_about 9 years ago
Reminder that this breaks basic features like copy&#x2F;paste, drag-and-drop, and a lot of applications that spawn helper applications and expect them to be on the same display.<p>There is a reason that the general Linux desktop camp is <i>not</i> adopting solutions like this and instead preferring Wayland, and that&#x27;s that these systems can never be production ready and support the featureset that traditional X11 can support.<p>Also, I tested my keylogger [0] on this setup, and it still got through. Oops. They&#x27;re proxying through XRecord and XTest it seems.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;magcius&#x2F;keylog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;magcius&#x2F;keylog</a>
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cm3about 9 years ago
This is sorely needed as part of mainstream desktops due to the extended power of APIs available to web pages like file access for instance.
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edwintorokabout 9 years ago
Could similar results be achieved with (x)wayland by spawning a separate X server for each application? IIUC xwayland spawns an X server on demand, but just one (so X applications can spy on each-other while wayland apps cannot, and X cannot spy on wayland apps).