firejail-login(5)

firejail-login5

Login file syntax for firejail

Overview

/etc/firejail/login.users file describes additional arguments passed to the firejail executable upon user logging into a Firejail restricted shell. Each user entry in the file consists of a user name followed by the arguments passed to firejail. The format is as follows:

user_name: arguments

Example:

netblue: --net=none --protocol=unix

Wildcard patterns are accepted in the user name field:

user*: --private

Restricted shell

To configure a restricted shell, replace /bin/bash with /usr/bin/firejail in the /etc/passwd file for each user that needs to be restricted. Alternatively, you can specify /usr/bin/firejail using the `adduser` or `usermod` commands:

adduser --shell /usr/bin/firejail username
usermod --shell /usr/bin/firejail username

Files

/etc/firejail/login.users

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

License

Firejail is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Homepage: ⟨https://firejail.wordpress.com⟩

From firejail 0.9.80-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.