[apparmor] RAppArmor: AppArmor for R

[John Johansen]

On 07/23/2012 02:59 AM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> Dear AppArmor users/developers,
> 
> I am planning on introducing AppArmor to the R community. R is a GNU
> project for statistical computing, widely popular in academia, however
> security is a long standing issue. I wrote an R package containing
> some interfaces to AppArmor [1][2] accompanied by a paper for the
> Journal of Statistical Software [3] introducing some functionality
> that could potentially be useful for R.
> 
> I realize that there are probably not a lot of R users in here, but if
> someone finds it interesting to give this a try, or has any
> tips/feedback for the paper before I submit it, please get in touch.
> The package can easily be installed from Launchpad. The paper is
> written for R users with no background at all in security; hence it is
> written on a very introductory level regarding security and AppArmor.
> It only scratches the surface of what AppArmor potentially has to
> offer. Nevertheless, I am not a security expert myself, so is would be
> great to get someone with an AppArmor background to look at the paper
> before it is finalized.
> 
> Thanks for all contributions. I am quite convinced that R and AppArmor
> is a powerful combination, and this approach could be very beneficial
> to both communities.
> 
Thanks for doing this, I'll poke at this as well tonight and as always
feel free to ask questions. Also if you would like any or all of this
could be put in the wiki.