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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition
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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

by Donald A. Tevault
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
15h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Hands-on lab – using Firejail

For this lab, you'll create a virtual machine with your favorite flavor of desktop Ubuntu. Let's get started:

  1. Create a virtual machine with your favorite Ubuntu flavor. To use Lubuntu, as I do, just use this the following download link: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/18.04/release/lubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso.
  2. Update the VM using the following command:
sudo apt updatesudo dist-upgrade

Then, reboot the machine.

  1. Install Firejail, LibreOffice, and Chromium:
sudo apt install firejail libreoffice chromium-browser
  1. In one Terminal window, start Chromium without any kernel capabilities:
firejail --caps.drop=all chromium-browser
  1. Surf to various websites to see if everything works as it should. ...
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