[apparmor] understanding apparmor_parser debug output

Vincas Dargis vindrg at gmail.com
Fri Mar 31 21:48:45 UTC 2017


Hi,

I'm on Kubuntu 16.04 with Apparmor 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6 and Linux 4.8.0-34-generic (HWE)

usr.bin.skype profile has such lines:

   deny @{HOME}/.fontconfig/ w,
   deny @{HOME}/.fontconfig/*.cache-*.TMP* w,

When I run:

apparmor_parser -Q -d  /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.skype

These lines are printed:

Mode:	wa:wa	Name:	({/home//*,/root}/.fontconfig/)
Mode:	wa:wa	Name:	({/home//*,/root}/.fontconfig/*.cache-*.TMP*)

I do not quite follow here. What these wa:wa means exactly? Looking at Wiki [0], it kinda seems like if I am owner or 
not, I am allowed to write..? Though of course I expect not to be able to write due to "deny".

How to interpret these debug outputs, how do I audit apparmor profiles?

Thanks.

[0] http://wiki.apparmor.net/index.php/AppArmorMonitoring - "This listing shows the permissions granted when the user 
owns the resource (file, directory, pipe, etc.) and when the user does not own the resource."



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