Re: [Jailkit-users] How to jail Opera or Firefox...?

[Olivier Sessink]

Hubert Havel wrote:
> Hello Jailkit Users!
> 
>    Does anyone have any experience jailing Opera or Firefox?
> 
>   According to the Jailkit docs, you should be able to jail Firefox or
> Opera. If I am trying to
> jail opera, do I have to also jail X server too? I noticed the Xorg
> binary for the X server is
> a SUID program. Doesn't that makes it an unattractive candidate for
> jailing?  Any help
> would be **GREATLY APPRECIATED**.  I am running SuSE 10.1.  Thanks.

I have jailed firefox. I start it with 'ssh -X' (X-forwarding) so I
don't need the X-server, I do need the x utility xauth to forward the
MIT-magic-cookie authentication. You also need all X fonts in the jail.
I used 'strace' to find everything that Firefox needs.

regards,
        Olivier