[pkg-apparmor] Feedback on "Updating a profile in Debian’s apparmor-profiles-extra package"

u u at 451f.org
Fri Jan 30 13:30:18 UTC 2015


Hi,

Christian Boltz:
> Am Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2015 schrieb u:
>> As for the second question asked, maybe one of you could answer this:
>> "do you have plans on working on violation detection tool, like SUSE
>> had with YaST2, and Fedora had with setroubleshootd?".
> 
> Well, unfortunately the YaST2 AppArmor module is unmaintained (it's 
> still based on the old perl code) and the YaST team already dropped some 
> parts that didn't work anymore. It seems the only sane/possible fix 
> would be to rewrite it from scratch, and that hits the usual ENOTIME 
> problem :-/

ok.

> That said - the AppArmor commandline tools are actively maintained and 
> are what I'd recommend to use:
> - aa-genprof to create a new profile
> - aa-logprof to update an existing profile
> - aa-notify for things like a daily log summary or realtime desktop 
>   notifications of profile violations (= audit.log entries)
> - and various other aa-* tools
> 
> BTW: IIRC you don't mention those tools in the Debian wiki yet, but you 
> should ;-)
> 
> Feel free to link to my blog where I have some "AppArmor crash course" 
> slides:
>     http://blog.cboltz.de/archives/65-openSUSE-conference.html

Great, I'll have a look and I will definitely mention these tools.

Cheers!
u.



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