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Paranoid Penguin - AppArmor in Ubuntu 9

Issue 185

From Issue #185
September 2009

Sep 01, 2009  By Mick Bauer
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Psst! Your Ubuntu system has been secretly hardened with AppArmor!
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Ubuntu 9.10, soon to be

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 17:28.

Ubuntu 9.10, soon to be released, has even more profiles. See:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicKoala/TechnicalOverview#GNOME
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicKoala/TechnicalOverview#AppArmor

It should also be noted that the Ubuntu kernel team has put a lot of effort into getting AppArmor into the upstream kernel. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.lsm/9493 for details. IMO, the future of AppArmor has never looked better.

I switched from Suse because

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Submitted by Tinker (not verified) on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 03:08.

I switched from Suse because of their policy of messing with my system, I avoided distro's that implemented SELinux without my permission. I noticed the stealth introduction of AppArmor which I do not want and the fact there is no documentation of how to disable it. Is there any Linux distro left that allows me freedom of choice?

Disabling AppArmor is

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Submitted by John Johansen (not verified) on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 21:18.

Disabling AppArmor is documented here

Sorry for the bad link, See

John Johansen's picture
Submitted by John Johansen (not verified) on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 08:33.

Sorry for the bad link,

See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppArmor#Disable%20AppArmor%20framework for details on how to disable AppArmor.

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