Firejail and symlink pointing outside of home directory

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:03:27 +0000

I normally move /home/user/Downloads off /home/user to a secondary mechanical drive and then symlink it back to /home/user.
Firejail for security reasons does not allow whitelisting directories residing outside of the home directory, the simplest solution I found is mount Download directory using mount --bind.

sudo mount --bind /mnt/data/Downloads/ /home/user/Downloads

To make the change permanent edit fstab:

cat /etc/fstab
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/mnt/data/Downloads /home/user/Downloads none bind

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Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:22:49 +0000

Configuring this piece of poorly documented bloated shit Mozilla came up with was a huge pain in the ass, so excuse the colored language but I am fucking pissed.
The idea was to finally implement a system to synchronize Firefox’s bookmarks across multiple devices without giving Mozilla all my personal data.
After some minutes spent researching the subject on the interweb I found out the synchronization system is a huge clusterfuck comprised of multiple components:

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Firejail and symlink pointing outside of home directory

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