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Capsicum is a lightweight OS capability and sandbox framework provided
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by FreeBSD. When built with Capsicum support - which is the default under
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FreeBSD - Irssi can enter a Capsicum capability mode (a sandbox), greatly
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limiting possible consequences of a potential security hole in Irssi
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or the libraries it depends on.
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To make Irssi enter capability mode on startup, add
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capsicum = "yes";
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to your ~/.irssi/config and restart the client. Alternatively you can
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enter it "by hand", using the "/capsicum enter" command. From the security
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point of view it's strongly preferable to use the former method, to avoid
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establishing connections without the sandbox protection; the "/capsicum"
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command is only intended for experimentation, and in cases where you need
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to do something that's not possible in capability mode - run scripts,
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for example - before continuing.
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There is no way to leave the capability mode, apart from exiting Irssi.
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When running in capability mode, there are certain restrictions - Irssi
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won't be able to access any files outside the directory pointed to by
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capsicum_irclogs_path (which defaults to ~/irclogs/). If you change
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the path when already in capability mode it won't be effective until
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you restart Irssi. Capability mode also makes it impossible to use
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the "/save" command.
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Currently there is no way to use custom SSL certificates. As a workaround
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you can establish connections and enter the capability mode afterwards
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using the "/capsicum enter" command.
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