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I have bad news for you: The flatpak developers plan to stop using bubblewrap. They say it is no longer necessary because most distros now support unprivileged user namespaces. https://youtu.be/NsVhkz2Xl0E?si=-ypxvTlRukCZLql9

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Bubblewrap is a CLI interface for these, you know? It's been some time since bwrap recommended avoiding their SUID wrapper.

From my knowledge its a yes and no. One of the "benefits" of bwrap was that it was a SUID binary and thus maximised compatibility with systems that disabled unprivileged user namespaces. With that barrier gone you can implement a more tailored sandbox to the usecase instead of working around limitations in bwrap. Like, all things considered, bubblewrap as a whole isn't that much code (quick check seems like ~6k LOC) and does somewhat limit the API you can work with.

I tried to find out what unprivileged user namespaces was, and all I can find is people talking loudly about how insecure they are, e.g. https://secureblue.dev/articles/userns

But does bubblewrap also use them?

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