Working With AppArmor Profiles

30 minutes
  • 2 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

In this lab, we will be working with AppArmor profiles. We will edit an existing AppArmor profile as well as create a new profile.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Change the dhclient AppArmor profile to complain mode.

Note: Please wait about 6 minutes to allow the server to finish provisioning before connecting via ssh.

  1. In order to make changes to AppArmor profiles, first we must install the apparmor-utils package with the following command:

    sudo apt-get install -y apparmor-utils
  2. In order to change the dhclient AppArmor profile to complain mode, run the following command:

    sudo aa-complain /sbin/dhclient
  3. Lastly, we must restart the AppArmor service for the changes to take effect:

    sudo systemctl reload apparmor.service
Create a new AppArmor profile for Xtightvnc and set its profile to complain mode.
  1. To create a new AppArmor profile for Xtightvnc, run the following command:

    sudo aa-genprof Xtightvnc

    Then, press F to finish creating the profile.

  2. Next, set the new Xtightvnc AppArmor profile to complain mode:

    sudo aa-complain /usr/bin/Xtightvnc
  3. Lastly, we need to restart the AppArmor service for the changes to take effect:

    sudo systemctl reload apparmor.service

Additional Resources

Your supervisor has asked you to make some changes on an Ubuntu host's AppArmor profiles. You need to change the dhclient profile from enforce mode to complain mode due to some recent problems. Next, you need to create a new AppArmor profile for Xtightvnc and set that profile to complain mode until the security team creates the necessary rules at a later time.

Note: Please wait about 6 minutes to allow the server to finish provisioning before connecting via ssh.

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