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[GH-ISSUE #726] Option inconsistency: relative/absolute paths #494

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opened 2026-05-05 05:58:31 -06:00 by gitea-mirror · 3 comments

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Originally created by @lheckemann on GitHub (Aug 17, 2016).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/726

Some options require absolute paths, but this is not documented. For instance, --whitelist=. doesn't work (so I often write --whitelist=$PWD). Other options like --private=. work fine. Could this inconsistency be removed or explained in the documentation?

Originally created by @lheckemann on GitHub (Aug 17, 2016). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/726 Some options require absolute paths, but this is not documented. For instance, `--whitelist=.` doesn't work (so I often write `--whitelist=$PWD`). Other options like `--private=.` work fine. Could this inconsistency be removed or explained in the documentation?

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2026-05-05 05:58:36 -06:00

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@netblue30 commented on GitHub (Aug 18, 2016):

I'll look into it, thanks for the bug.

@netblue30 commented on GitHub (Aug 18, 2016): I'll look into it, thanks for the bug.

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2026-05-05 05:58:38 -06:00

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@chiraag-nataraj commented on GitHub (Jul 25, 2018):

@netblue30 Maybe we can resolve relative paths for whitelist?

@chiraag-nataraj commented on GitHub (Jul 25, 2018): @netblue30 Maybe we can resolve relative paths for `whitelist`?

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2026-05-05 05:58:40 -06:00

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@chiraag-nataraj commented on GitHub (May 21, 2019):

This is still an issue. --whitelist=.config, for example, will error out saying that .config is an invalid path.

@chiraag-nataraj commented on GitHub (May 21, 2019): This is still an issue. `--whitelist=.config`, for example, will error out saying that `.config` is an invalid path.

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