I've been messing with sandboxing using "bwrap" for random itch.io games I download to play and it isn't trivial to get it working with least privileges. I have so far been unable to get "Microlandia" to run, but other Unity games are running just fine under "bwrap". I am excited to see more Landlock tools emerge that make this task easier.
it seems to work fairly well? But I just started playing with bwrap this weekend. I do wish bwrap could be told "put the program in this pre-prepared network namespace" because accessing unsecured local dev servers could also be an issue.
I had this idea of having toolbox+custom user for each project - that way it would be "simple" to have isolated environments, but it does lead to a lot of bloat. And I do think it is a naive solution.
I think a combination of custom users + a whole bunch of sandboxing is exactly what you'd get out of systemd-nspawn if you're willing to write the config: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-nspawn
bwrap seems a lot easier but if you want more control (or, for instance, want to run a Ubuntu basis because that's what a lot of games are compiled against), systemd-nspawn can be quite powerful.
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I've been messing with sandboxing using "bwrap" for random itch.io games I download to play and it isn't trivial to get it working with least privileges. I have so far been unable to get "Microlandia" to run, but other Unity games are running just fine under "bwrap". I am excited to see more Landlock tools emerge that make this task easier.
- https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap
- https://codeberg.org/dannyfritz/dotfiles/src/commit/38343008...
- https://explodi.itch.io/microlandia
I was just playing with bwrap for isolating npm project actions from the rest of my system.
it seems to work fairly well? But I just started playing with bwrap this weekend. I do wish bwrap could be told "put the program in this pre-prepared network namespace" because accessing unsecured local dev servers could also be an issue.I had this idea of having toolbox+custom user for each project - that way it would be "simple" to have isolated environments, but it does lead to a lot of bloat. And I do think it is a naive solution.
Bwrap seems like a better option.
I think a combination of custom users + a whole bunch of sandboxing is exactly what you'd get out of systemd-nspawn if you're willing to write the config: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-nspawn
bwrap seems a lot easier but if you want more control (or, for instance, want to run a Ubuntu basis because that's what a lot of games are compiled against), systemd-nspawn can be quite powerful.
thats how android does it. every app is different user.
Oh really? That's a surprise