Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

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Bor v0.8.0 is out. This release adds three new policy types — Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones — alongside a full web UI overhaul, finer-grained RBAC, and a dedicated security hardening pass. The complete changelog is on the GitHub release page.

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Mozilla Thunderbird can now be managed on enrolled desktops with the same mechanism used for Firefox ESR. The agent writes the managed policies.json that Thunderbird expects, merged from all bound policies, and removing the last policy restores the original file. Flatpak installations are detected and enforced alongside RPM/DEB installations, and the managed file is protected by the tamper watcher — external edits are detected and immediately restored. The web UI ships a full policy editor with the complete Thunderbird policy catalogue.

For fleets running Edge on Linux, the agent writes bor_managed.json into each Edge managed-policy directory and cleans it up from every directory when the last bound policy is removed. The web UI provides a tree-based editor with the Edge policy catalogue, JSON validation, and a setting preview before enabling.

The new Firewalld policy type manages firewalld zones on enrolled nodes: services, ports, forward ports, rich rules, masquerade, interfaces, sources, and the zone target.

(Excerpted from the original; full article via the source link below.)

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