[GH-ISSUE #2396] Creating a firejail group for the firejail binary no longer works #1599

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opened 2026-05-05 08:15:14 -06:00 by gitea-mirror · 1 comment

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Originally created by @Ryujinra on GitHub (Feb 10, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/2396

Creating a special firejail group no longer works according to the instructions here:

https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/basic-usage/#suid

chown root:firejail /usr/bin/firejail
chmod 4750 /usr/bin/firejail

An attempt to run any program afterwards results in an error of the following kind:

Error: cannot create /run/firejail/profile/27112

The last digits are seemingly random. Everything worked up to a recent commit (within the last week or two for sure), but I don't know which specific commit caused the regression.

Originally created by @Ryujinra on GitHub (Feb 10, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/2396 Creating a special firejail group no longer works according to the instructions here: https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/basic-usage/#suid > chown root:firejail /usr/bin/firejail > chmod 4750 /usr/bin/firejail An attempt to run any program afterwards results in an error of the following kind: > Error: cannot create /run/firejail/profile/27112 The last digits are seemingly random. Everything worked up to a recent commit (within the last week or two for sure), but I don't know which specific commit caused the regression.

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2026-05-05 08:15:17 -06:00

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@Ryujinra commented on GitHub (Feb 10, 2019):

Order of the chmod/chown command matters. My pacman script for automating the commands executed the chown command last, which removed the executable bit.

@Ryujinra commented on GitHub (Feb 10, 2019): Order of the chmod/chown command matters. My pacman script for automating the commands executed the chown command last, which removed the executable bit.

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[GH-ISSUE #3539] Automatically started application in KDE not firejailed #2223

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