Securing the IDE: sandboxing plugins

2017-04-04 Thread Emilian Bold
Hello, One of the reasons I install only the essential plugins is the fact we have no sandboxing. No IDE has plugins sandboxing, but we can do better. There is a wide array of plugins that need very little permissions (eg. the highly rated "Toggle line wrap") and users would install them without

Re: Securing the IDE: sandboxing plugins

2017-04-04 Thread Julien Enselme
Hi, I like the idea. I also guess most user will understand how it works since on mobile devices there already is such a system. I have no idea on how this could be implemented though. Looking forward to a proof of concept. Regards, On Tue, 2017-04-04 at 18:29 +0300, Emilian Bold wrote: > Hello

Re: Securing the IDE: sandboxing plugins

2017-04-04 Thread Yonathan W'Gebriel
+1 Great idea.  -Yonathan. On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 11:29 AM, Emilian Bold wrote: Hello, One of the reasons I install only the essential plugins is the fact we have no sandboxing. No IDE has plugins sandboxing, but we can do better. There is a wide array of plugins that need very li

Re: Securing the IDE: sandboxing plugins

2017-04-05 Thread Jaroslav Tulach
Challenging task. On úterý 4. dubna 2017 18:29:09 CEST Emilian Bold wrote: > Hello, > > One of the reasons I install only the essential plugins is the fact we have > no sandboxing. > > No IDE has plugins sandboxing, but we can do better. > > There is a wide array of plugins that need very littl

Re: Securing the IDE: sandboxing plugins

2017-04-05 Thread Emilian Bold
But the OSGi security is never enforced, no? --emi Pe 5 apr. 2017, la 15:35, Jaroslav Tulach a scris: > Challenging task. > >> On úterý 4. dubna 2017 18:29:09 CEST Emilian Bold wrote: >> Hello, >> >> One of the reasons I install only the essential plugins is the fact we have >> no sandboxing.