[pkg-apparmor] Bug#879590: apparmor: Decide how we enable AppArmor by default

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Mon Oct 23 22:10:00 UTC 2017


On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 10:06 +0200, intrigeri at debian.org wrote:
> Package: apparmor
> Version: 2.11.0-11
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Ben Hutchings <benh at debian.org>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we're discussing whether to enable AppArmor by default during the
> Buster cycle, but we have no actual plan wrt. how to do it.
> There are several options:
> 
> A. Make AppArmor the default LSM in the kernel
> 
>    i.e. set CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY="apparmor"
>    and CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR=y.
[...]
> B. Configure bootloaders to enable AppArmor by default
>
>    On https://bugs.debian.org/702030 a nice & flexible solution was
>    designed; let's call it B.1.
[...]
>    A short-term simpler option would be to drop a file in
>    /etc/default/grub.d/ [...] Let's call this option B.2.
[...]
> C. Anything else?
> 
> My personal preference is A > B.1. Ben & others, what do you think?

I agree.

We really should have a common way to append things to the kernel
command line, which would allow a more general B.2, but this shouldn't
have to wait for that.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow
Lindberg

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