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Create a Sandbox for apps using folder actions
Authored by: Han Solo on May 28, '04 12:08:18PM

I guess I don't completely understand why one would go to all this trouble — and run many of the risks listed above — when one could just set up a separate "sandbox" account and access it with FUS. One could even place restrictions on that account to further minimize the risks. Or am I missing something?



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Yes... and no...
Authored by: anjoschu on May 28, '04 01:09:51PM

Hi.

You're right of course in that FUS works well, too. Here, you also create a sandbox user (see the notes), but you need not FUS to it to run apps in the sandbox user space.

This hint is definitely _not_ a security risk unless you choose to ignore the warning about root. Au contraire.



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