carlgleisner
FreeBSD Capsicum for sandboxing ports
Hi all,
I came across this lovely lightning talk about sandboxing using, among other things, Capsicum on FreeBSD:
It was posted on the Erlang forums as well:
In the lightning talk, Krasen talks about NIF:s and C nodes for interoperability and combining that with sandboxing techniques. I’m using ports for processing Word documents – i.e. unzipping and XML parsing – and figure that should be possible to sandbox in a similar manner.
If anyone would be interested in sharing any experience or resources doing this I would be most grateful 
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krasenyp
I don’t know why I’m seeing this now. I’ll make sure to develop an example project for the approach I present in the video.
drobban
I have done something similar in Freebsd with Jails.
Where I wanted an environment completely locked down for evaluating code from “external” sources. Im using ports and the only data allowed to flow back and forth is a stream of text.
The environment running the code is completely locked down, minimal user privileges in a readonly setup.
Heard of capsicum previously, but never explored it. So I will definitely have a look at it =) so thank you for the link
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