Administrative utilities provide a mechanism for administrators to configure, query, and control AppArmor.

For background information on AppArmor which was originally named SubDomain, SubDomain: Parsimonious Server Security by Crispin Cowan, Steve Beattie, Greg Kroah­Hartman, Calton Pu, Perry Wagle, and Virgil Gligor at https://forgesvn1.novell.com/viewsvn/apparmor/trunk/docs/papers/subdomain­ lisa00.pdf?revision=3 [CRISP] and http://www.novell.com/documentation/apparmor/pdfdoc/apparmor2_admin/apparmor2_admin.pdf and http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?apparmor .

5.8.1AppArmor administrative utilities

The primary configuration file for AppArmor is /etc/apparmor/subdomain.conf . (SubDomain was the original name for AppArmor.) The configuration file defines the directory where AppArmor profiles are located, what action to take if the AppArmor LSM cannot be loaded at system boot time (warn, panic, build, or build-panic), whether the OWLSM extension should be loaded, and whether event logging should occur. For more information about AppArmor configuration, please see the man page on subdomain.conf.

AppArmor profiles define the confinement rules for applications protected by AppArmor. The profiles are kept in /etc/apparmor.d.. Profiles are named by the full path to the executable with / replaced by a period (.). The following contains an example AppArmor policy for klogd which is stored in

/etc/apparmor.d/sbin.klogd:

#include <tunables/global> /sbin/klogd {

#include <abstractions/base> capability sys_admin,

/boot/System.map*

r,

/proc/kmsg

r,

/sbin/klogd

rmix,

/var/log/boot.msg

rwl,

/var/run/klogd.pid

rwl,

}

 

In this example, klogd, can read the specified files in /boot/System.map* and /proc/kmsg. klogd can write log and run information, such as /var/log/boot.msg and /var/run/klogd.pid. Allowable access is denoted by familiar UNIX permission contructs, with some additions, as follows:

r ­ read

w ­ write

ux ­ unconstrained execute

Ux ­ unconstrained execute after scrubbing the environment

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IBM 10 SP1 EAL4 manual AppArmor administrative utilities, Var/log/boot.msg Rwl Var/run/klogd.pid