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Qubes OS: Templates


In Getting Started, we covered the distinction in Qubes OS between where you install your software and where you run your software. Your software is installed in templates. Each template shares its root filesystem (i.e., all of its programs and system files) with all the qubes based on ...

In order to avoid being locked out of your system, you must be very careful to enter this command without typos and with the correct substitutions. Examples of obvious places for such hooks could be:.bashrc, the Firefox profile directory which contains the extensions, or some PDF or DOC documents that are expected to be opened by the user frequently (assuming the malware found an exploitable bug in the PDF or DOC reader), and surely many others places, all in the user’s home directory. Also note that disposable qubes do not have persistent user filesystem, and so they start up completely “clean” every time.

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