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Print better error in the case of ownership issues #2743
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If we want to print better error messages, we can also fix this:
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or this (
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[enhancement] Print better error in the case of ownership issues
Print better error in the case of ownership issues
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If I use
private-bin
to whitelist a binary in/usr/bin
which happens to have the wrong owner (for example, my user),firejail
prints a very opaque and unhelpful error. The context this came up in isprotonmail-bridge
, which (for some godforsaken reason) installed with my user as the owner (going to report that as a bug to them). This meant thatprivate-bin
failed (as it should), but the error message was unhelpful in figuring out what the problem was.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: