[GH-ISSUE #64] --private-home fails on paths with special characters #35

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opened 2026-05-05 04:49:29 -06:00 by gitea-mirror · 1 comment

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Originally created by @pigmonkey on GitHub (Sep 16, 2015).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/64

Attempting to use --private-home on a directory with white space fails, even with the white space escaped.

$ firejail --private-home=/home/pigmonkey/test\ dir/
Warning: default profile disabled by --private-home option
Parent pid 20112, child pid 20113
cp: cannot stat ‘/home/pigmonkey/test’: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat ‘dir/’: No such file or directory
Error system cp -a --parents:duplicate(378): No such file or directory
Child process initialized
...

Trying it with quotes:

$ firejail --private-home="/home/pigmonkey/test\ dir/"
Error: file /home/pigmonkey/test\ dir/ not found.

Same thing for other special characters, like parenthesis:

$ touch ~/tmp/File\(1\).txt
$ firejail --private-home=/home/pigmonkey/tmp/File\(1\).txt

Originally created by @pigmonkey on GitHub (Sep 16, 2015). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/64 Attempting to use `--private-home` on a directory with white space fails, even with the white space escaped. ``` $ firejail --private-home=/home/pigmonkey/test\ dir/ Warning: default profile disabled by --private-home option Parent pid 20112, child pid 20113 cp: cannot stat ‘/home/pigmonkey/test’: No such file or directory cp: cannot stat ‘dir/’: No such file or directory Error system cp -a --parents:duplicate(378): No such file or directory Child process initialized ... ``` Trying it with quotes: ``` $ firejail --private-home="/home/pigmonkey/test\ dir/" Error: file /home/pigmonkey/test\ dir/ not found. ``` Same thing for other special characters, like parenthesis: ``` $ touch ~/tmp/File$1$.txt $ firejail --private-home=/home/pigmonkey/tmp/File$1$.txt ```

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@netblue30 commented on GitHub (Sep 16, 2015):

I put a fix in, thank you for the bug! This should work now:

$ firejail --private-home=/home/pigmonkey/test\ dir/
$ firejail --private-home=/home/pigmonkey/tmp/File\(1\).txt

@netblue30 commented on GitHub (Sep 16, 2015): I put a fix in, thank you for the bug! This should work now: ``` $ firejail --private-home=/home/pigmonkey/test\ dir/ $ firejail --private-home=/home/pigmonkey/tmp/File$1$.txt ```

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[PR #35] [MERGED] Compile with -W -Wall -Werror #3519

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