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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2017-05-13 04:51:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2017-05-18 10:32:38 -0600 |
| commit | 26fccd9ed2e283add2849858c28bd14f84d9c48e (patch) | |
| tree | 4323d0eaf0687281391e76820ea59b28165858f7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 229fd05c565eb931aa7c59c9d740e2047701a4ad (diff) | |
| download | lwn-26fccd9ed2e283add2849858c28bd14f84d9c48e.tar.gz lwn-26fccd9ed2e283add2849858c28bd14f84d9c48e.zip | |
doc: ReSTify apparmor.txt
Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide.
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/apparmor.rst (renamed from Documentation/security/apparmor.txt) | 36 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/00-INDEX | 2 |
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/apparmor.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/apparmor.rst index 93c1fd7d0635..3e9734bd0e05 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/apparmor.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/apparmor.rst @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ ---- What is AppArmor? --- +======== +AppArmor +======== + +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 @@ -6,34 +11,41 @@ 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 --- +How to enable/disable +===================== + +set ``CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR=y`` -set CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR=y +If AppArmor should be selected as the default security module then set:: -If AppArmor should be selected as the default security module then - set CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY="apparmor" - and CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR_BOOTPARAM_VALUE=1 + CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY="apparmor" + 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. +``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 +``apparmor=0, security=XXXX`` (where ``XXXX`` 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 +============= -Documentation can be found on the wiki. +Documentation can be found on the wiki, linked below. ---- Links --- +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/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst index cc0e04d63bf9..a4db29410ea0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst @@ -33,4 +33,5 @@ the one "major" module (e.g. SELinux) if there is one configured. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + apparmor SELinux diff --git a/Documentation/security/00-INDEX b/Documentation/security/00-INDEX index aaa0195418b3..22ebdc02f0dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/security/00-INDEX @@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Smack.txt - documentation on the Smack Linux Security Module. Yama.txt - documentation on the Yama Linux Security Module. -apparmor.txt - - documentation on the AppArmor security extension. keys-ecryptfs.txt - description of the encryption keys for the ecryptfs filesystem. keys-request-key.txt |