Low-hanging or important AppArmor profiles
Discuss and identify easy or important AppArmor profiles that either do not exist yet or are not yet enabled by default.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Rick Clark
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Jamie Strandboge
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
- Informational
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Jamie Strandboge
- Completed by
- Jamie Strandboge
Related branches
Related bugs
Bug #375422: apparmor fails to load at startup | Fix Released |
Bug #382905: ship enforcing apparmor profile for ntpd | Fix Released |
Bug #382913: ship enforcing apparmor profile for evince | Fix Released |
Bug #388422: create apparmor security plugin for libvirt | Fix Released |
Bug #401931: [karmic] aa_change_profile() no longer works | Fix Released |
Whiteboard
I. Introduction
A. current profiles (https:/
B. apparmor-profiles vs package-shipped profiles
- apparmor-profiles contain various applications (ntpd, syslogd, etc.)
- aren't hugely maintained, some are known broken
- in complain mode by default waiting for a feedback to be enforced
II. Sources
A. apparmor/
* https:/
B. apparmor-profiles
1. who is using them?
2. how useful are they?
C. others (coummunity, Novell?)
* http://
III. Potential targets (what we would like to be covered)
* ntpd (P1)
* squid (P3, possibly P2 (talk to elmo))
* nmbd (P2)
* winbind (P2)
* postgresql (P1 (talk to pitti))
* spamassassin (spamd) (P2)
* awstats (P3?)
* analog (P3?)
* mailman (P3)
* in universe
* asterisk (P3?)
* tomcat (a third party changehat plugin is rumored to exist) (P1)
* apache (in another session :P) (P1)
* portmap (low-effort?)
* rpc.statd (low-effort?)
* exim4 (P3)
* nagios/nrpe (P3)
* munin
* dnsmasq (P3 possibly P2 due to libvirt (talk to soren))
* scripts that people tend to give sudo access to: ex.: apache2ctl, /etc/init.d/* (mysql?)
* openssh-server (not easy, as users can spawn anything) (P2?)
* libvirt (requires writing svirt plugin) (P1)
* Client side:
* pidgin (P3)
* mail clients (thunderbird, kmail, evolution) (P3)
* eog (P3)
* totem (P3)
* evince (in progress in bzr tree)
* skype, ekiga (P3)
* acroread (P2)
* rhythmbox (P3)
IV. identify most important/needed profiles to help prioritize their implementation
Misc:
AppArmorProfile