[apparmor] PATCH [1/3] - default apparmor_notify to report messages if it is installed

Steve Beattie steve at nxnw.org
Thu Sep 9 19:12:19 BST 2010


On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:13:08AM -0500, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:06 -0700, John Johansen wrote:
> > This patch defaults apparmor_notify to report messages if it is installed
> > and started.
> > 
> > Index: utils/notify.conf
> > ===================================================================
> > --- utils.orig/notify.conf	2010-09-09 08:59:23.494193402 -0700
> > +++ utils/notify.conf	2010-09-09 08:59:53.994193402 -0700
> > @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
> >  #
> >  # ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  
> > -# Set to 'yes' to enable AppArmor DENIED notifications globally
> > -show_notifications="no"
> > +# Set to 'no' to disable AppArmor notifications globally
> > +show_notifications="yes"
> >  
> >  # Only people in use_group can use apparmor-notify
> >  use_group="admin"
> > 
> 
> ACK.

ACK for 2.5.1 as well.

> This incidentally is fine for Ubuntu as well, since apparmor-notify is
> not installed by default.

Jamie does bring up a good point, are there other ditributions for whom
this change is problematic? I suppose if it is, it could be patched at
build time (or the vendor could just use their own notify.conf, etc.).

I did add this to the 2.5.1 release notes.

Thanks.

-- 
Steve Beattie
<sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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