[HN Gopher] Bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool ...
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Bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak
 
Author : TheFreim
Score  : 39 points
Date   : 2023-07-11 18:46 UTC (4 hours ago)
 
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w3m dump (github.com)
 
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| Also of interest is https://github.com/igo95862/bubblejail , a
| less low level program on top of bubblewrap.
 
| jauntywundrkind wrote:
| Fwiw, this was mentioned in the _NixOS and my descent into
| insanity_ submission yesterday, as it 's underlying util _bwrap_
| , as a possible tool to help the blogger get NixOS running on
| their campus computers.
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668363
| 
| The org maintaining this maintains a bunch of other very high
| profile containerization/isolations tools: podman container
| runtime, buildah container builder, skopeo container registry
| multitool, conmon-rs container monitor, podman desktop gui, youki
| container runtime, and maintaining the standard reference impl of
| a bunch of OCI specs (storage, image). There's no higher profile
| place this work could come from, imo.
 
  | formerly_proven wrote:
  | > The org maintaining this maintains
  | 
  | (That org being mostly Red Hat)
 
  | nextos wrote:
  | It's actually annoying NixOS doesn't offer good default
  | sandboxing. Sandboxing should appeal to the Nix crowd, but
  | somehow it's not been integrated yet. AFAIK, GuixSD is working
  | on sandboxing.
  | 
  | In general, sandboxing is pretty important and an area were
  | Linux distributions are falling behind macOS and mobile.
 
    | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
    | NixOS supports firejail - https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Firejail
 
      | nextos wrote:
      | It does, but it is far from seamless / widely used. It is a
      | little bit more than firejail packed for NixOS.
 
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