Bug#859979: firejail: Option --overlay-path=path not supported but documented

[Reiner Herrmann]

Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream

Hi GSR,

On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 10:23:06PM +0200, GSR wrote:
> Man page talks about overlay-path but it fails as in:
> ---8<---
> firejail --overlay-path=/tmp/testdir --overlay-named=testname
> Error: invalid --overlay-path=/tmp/testdir command line option
> --->8---
> 
> Checked the source, it seems to be unsupported yet (around line 1471
> of main.c). Maybe man page should drop any mention until the issues
> are solved.

Thanks for reporting this.

This feature has been removed because of security problems.
I removed it from the manpage [1].

Regards,
  Reiner

[1]: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/d103b38


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Bug#859979: firejail: Option --overlay-path=path not supported but documented

[GSR]

Package: firejail
Version: 0.9.44.10-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Man page talks about overlay-path but it fails as in:
---8<---
firejail --overlay-path=/tmp/testdir --overlay-named=testname
Error: invalid --overlay-path=/tmp/testdir command line option
--->8---

Checked the source, it seems to be unsupported yet (around line 1471
of main.c). Maybe man page should drop any mention until the issues
are solved.

Thanks,
GSR
 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages firejail depends on:
ii  libapparmor1  2.10-2+b1
ii  libc6 2.24-9

Versions of packages firejail recommends:
ii  iptables   1.6.0+snapshot20161117-5
ii  xauth  1:1.0.9-1
pn  xpra | xserver-xephyr  

firejail suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information