On Sun, 05 Sep 2021 11:07:59 +0000
g4sra via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> On Sunday, September 5th, 2021 at 11:54 AM, tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> > On Sun, 05 Sep 2021 10:18:15 +0000
> > g4sra via Dng dng@??? wrote:
> > > On Sunday, September 5th, 2021 at 11:15 AM, tito farmatito@??? wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 05 Sep 2021 08:54:14 +0000
> > > > g4sra via Dng dng@??? wrote:
> > > > > <--snip-->
> > > > > > Comments and better ideas are welcome.
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> > > > > Apparmor
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > the cure is worse than the disease ;-)
> > > > > How is Apparmor abusive ?
> > Hi,
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> > I'm not very fond of apparmor for various reasons:
> > 1. I experienced unexpected behavior of programs
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> > silently failing to do something (log, run, etc
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> > because the apparmor profile was wrong/bugged
> > 2. unless you study every code path in the program you want to
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> > supervise the profiles used will not be safe but nobody really cares
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> > (e.g. maintainer adds a profile that works with the default setup
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> > of the distro (....if it really works))
> > 3. if you use a customized setup of services or other programs
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> > it is highly probable that the profiles will not work for you
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> > Summary:
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> > apparmor gets in the way of doing stuff and
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> > in the end adds just one more software layer
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> > with a million code lines and the inevitable
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> > programming errors, so in my humble opinion
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> > it just adds complexity (bad!) with no guarantee of improving
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> > security (not so good!) and makes linux more
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> > windows-like (worse!!).
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> > Addendum:
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> > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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> > What will be the next evolutionary step, will we need
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> > a new layer that secures apparmor?
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> > My Solution:
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> > To avoid all of this trouble and reduce complexity I pin -1
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> > apparmor in apt preferences, purge it and everything related
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> > and disable it on the kernel command line with apparmor=0
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> > and everything is smooth, understandable and reliable again
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> > as it has been "in saecula saeculorum".
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> > Ciao,
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> > Tito
> >
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> So to summarise...
> The answer to my question 'What is abusive about Apparmor ?' is "nothing".
The concept is abusive:
1) it is not KISS
2) it does not fix the underlying issues if there are any
3) who watches the watchdog?
Ciao,
Tito
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> You don't like it because you find it overly complicated to configure.
> Better throw overly complicated to configure KDE4 out (and Xorg, and ALSA, and...) with the bathwater as well then, and then KUserFeedback becomes a non-issue.
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I find them easier to configure than apparmor despite the fact they want to start to spy on me.
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