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author | John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> | 2010-07-30 01:48:09 +0400 |
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committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2010-08-02 09:35:15 +0400 |
commit | c1c124e91e7c6d5a600c98f6fb5b443c403a14f4 (patch) | |
tree | 58a4cf515dbd4fc4ea9e132fb2c5427d87408e3d /Documentation/apparmor.txt | |
parent | 898127c34ec03291c86f4ff3856d79e9e18952bc (diff) |
AppArmor: update Maintainer and Documentation
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/apparmor.txt b/Documentation/apparmor.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..93c1fd7d0635 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/apparmor.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- What is AppArmor? --- + +AppArmor is MAC style security extension for the Linux kernel. It implements +a task centered policy, with task "profiles" being created and loaded +from user space. Tasks on the system that do not have a profile defined for +them run in an unconfined state which is equivalent to standard Linux DAC +permissions. + +--- How to enable/disable --- + +set CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR=y + +If AppArmor should be selected as the default security module then + set CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY="apparmor" + and CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR_BOOTPARAM_VALUE=1 + +Build the kernel + +If AppArmor is not the default security module it can be enabled by passing +security=apparmor on the kernel's command line. + +If AppArmor is the default security module it can be disabled by passing +apparmor=0, security=XXXX (where XXX is valid security module), on the +kernel's command line + +For AppArmor to enforce any restrictions beyond standard Linux DAC permissions +policy must be loaded into the kernel from user space (see the Documentation +and tools links). + +--- Documentation --- + +Documentation can be found on the wiki. + +--- Links --- + +Mailing List - apparmor@lists.ubuntu.com +Wiki - http://apparmor.wiki.kernel.org/ +User space tools - https://launchpad.net/apparmor +Kernel module - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jj/apparmor-dev.git |