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| author | John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> | 2010-07-29 14:48:09 -0700 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2010-08-02 15:35:15 +1000 |
| commit | c1c124e91e7c6d5a600c98f6fb5b443c403a14f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 58a4cf515dbd4fc4ea9e132fb2c5427d87408e3d | |
| parent | 898127c34ec03291c86f4ff3856d79e9e18952bc (diff) | |
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AppArmor: update Maintainer and Documentation
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/apparmor.txt | 39 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | MAINTAINERS | 8 |
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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 diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 2b2407d9a6d0..b61f89fa01c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ parameter is applicable: Documentation/scsi/. SECURITY Different security models are enabled. SELINUX SELinux support is enabled. + APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled. SERIAL Serial support is enabled. SH SuperH architecture is enabled. SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel. @@ -2312,6 +2313,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used later to disable prior to initial policy load. + apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time + Format: { "0" | "1" } + See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text + 0 -- disable. + 1 -- enable. + Default value is set via kernel config option. + serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] shapers= [NET] diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 284431856461..33606bb91f1f 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -5061,6 +5061,14 @@ S: Supported F: include/linux/selinux* F: security/selinux/ +APPARMOR SECURITY MODULE +M: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> +L: apparmor@lists.ubuntu.com (subscribers-only, general discussion) +W: apparmor.wiki.kernel.org +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jj/apparmor-dev.git +S: Supported +F: security/apparmor/ + SENSABLE PHANTOM M: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> S: Maintained |