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1Firejail is a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security
2breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications
3using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf. It includes sandbox profiles for
4Iceweasel/Mozilla Firefox, Chromium, Midori, Opera, Evince, Transmission,
5VLC, Audoacious, Clementine, Rhythmbox, Totem, Deluge and qBittorrent.
6
7Firejail also expands the restricted shell facility found in bash by adding
8Linux namespace support. It supports sandboxing specific users upon login.
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10Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firejail/files/
11Build and install: ./configure && make && sudo make install
12Documentation and support: http://firejail.sourceforge.net
13License: GPL v2
14
15Firejail Authors:
16
17netblue30 (netblue30@yahoo.com)
18Patrick Toomey (http://sourceforge.net/u/ptoomey/profile/)
19 - user namespace implementation, ticket 10
20Reiner Herrmann - a number of build patches, man page fixes (tickets 11, 12, 13, 19)
21sshirokov (http://sourceforge.net/u/yshirokov/profile/)
22 - Patch to output "Reading profile" to stderr instead of stdout (ticket 15)
23Alexey Kuznetsov, <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
24 - src/lib/libnetlink.c extracted from iproute2 software package
25G4JC (http://sourceforge.net/u/gaming4jc/profile/)
26 - ARM support (ticket 17)
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28Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 Firejail Authors