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Just to bring this thread up-to-date, there are now Debian/Ubuntu-compatible packages available for PCManFM-Mod. And there is a PPA as well, which also contains my other software.

I recently...

Re AppArmor and SELinux, I would just add a few cautionary notes.

In my limited experience with default profiles in such security solutions, they are often very loose, which is why they work so...

I also voted for your other idea re the firewall - that is sorely needed in Linux and has been for awhile.

In the easy to use department, sandfox does make it as simple as "sandfox firefox" or...

Good - I think I will make a note of that in the guide.

If the partition is in fact ntfs, then I think you need to use ntfs-3g, as the ntfs supported on SystemRescueCD is read-only.
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One other thing... you might want to verify that /dev/sda is the drive you think it is - it's possible that SystemRescueCD is numbering your drives differently, especially if a USB drive is involved....

That may be causing the problem. Use "-t type" to indicate the correct type, eg:

mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/sda1 /mnt/target

Replace "ext3" above with the correct type for that partition (check...

I haven't encountered this before. If you type mount, does it show the volume mounted as readonly (ro)?

When using SystemRescueCD, you are always root, so there is no need for sudo. You might...

The problem with double-clicking is a bug in GTK 2.20 which affects Thunar, PCManFM, XFBurn, and others, on many distros...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612802

My mod of pcmanfm now...

Designed to be integrated into any file manager, permz is a bash script which presents a GUI menu. You can use it to quickly change file permissions and ownership as a normal user or as root, and...

Sandfox has reached version 1.0.0, meaning it has proved itself stable. Actually after running it for months I’ve had great results with it. The only change in this version is that /dev/urandom is...

Thanks for the update. I have spoken with the author and he does plan to add custom commands to pcmanfm2 once the nautilis-derived specs are solidified. From your screenshot it looks like he's...

The following modded version of PCMan File Manager adds user-definable commands to the right-click menu, as well as a number of other feature additions/changes and bug fixes. This is a fork of the...

On Arch at least, this used to cause mount to hang. But I have corrected this in 0.9.6.

Sandfox has been updated to 0.9.6. Three changes: Sandfox can now bind /dev/random, which may be necessary for printing in Firefox (my Firefox 3.6 crashes if I select File|Print without it). It is...

Yes, those files do need protection, and root does that. Least valuable does not mean non-valuable, it merely means less valuable than other data. Why are you protecting the system files so no one...

Hi - glad it's working well for you.



When you download the script from the website it's named "sandfox.sh" (due to limitations of the webserver it can't be named "sandfox"). If you install it...

Also, if your Firefox required something else to start, please let me know so I can consider including it in the default profile - thanks.

And I still want to see your Skype profile. :)

EDIT: Never mind all that about ps... I thought you meant the user daemon, whereas you mean the init.d script.

Instructions have been added for starting Sandfox automatically at boot. This enables you to have a sandbox already open when the user logs in and starts programs, without the need to enter the root...

lol My pleasure! Glad it's working well for you.

I recently wrote a program that does this...
http://igurublog.wordpress.com/downloads/script-sandfox/

Very easy to use... you just install it and run it. It's been working very well.

There...

At any rate, I appreciate the dialog with bodhi.zazen - he brought up some good points to consider. But some of that went far off-topic in terms of what Sandfox does, so let me just clarify what...

It is not better than the defaults, it is merely as good as them. Sandfox doesn't aim to address protecting apps as much as it aims to address protecting user's data. I discuss this in my article...

Thanks - I'm learning a lot with it.



Right - personally I would not use AppArmor or SELinux. If you don't mind state- and corporate-sponsored backdoors they will stop script kiddies, I'm...