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NAME

       apparmor.d - syntax of security profiles for AppArmor.

DESCRIPTION

       AppArmor profiles describe mandatory access rights granted to given
       programs and are fed to the AppArmor policy enforcement module using
       apparmor_parser(8). This man page describes the format of the AppArmor
       configuration files; see apparmor(7) for an overview of AppArmor.

FORMAT

       The following is a BNF-style description of AppArmor policy
       configuration files; see below for an example AppArmor policy file.
       AppArmor configuration files are line-oriented; # introduces a comment,
       similar to shell scripting languages. The exception to this rule is
       that #include will include the contents of a file inline to the policy;
       this behaviour is modelled after cpp(1).

           INCLUDE = '#include' ( ABS PATH | MAGIC PATH )

           ABS PATH = '"' path '"' (the path is passed to open(2))

           MAGIC PATH = '<' relative path '>' (the path is relative to
           /etc/apparmor.d/)

           COMMENT = '#' TEXT

           TEXT = any characters

           PROFILE = [ COMMENT ... ] [ VARIABLE ASSIGNMENT ... ] ( '"' PROGRAM
           '"' | PROGRAM ) [ 'flags=(complain)' ]'{' [ ( RESOURCE RULE |
           COMMENT | INCLUDE | SUBPROFILE | 'capability ' CAPABILITY | NETWORK
           RULE ) ... ] '}'

           SUBPROFILE = [ COMMENT ... ] PROGRAMHAT '{' [ ( FILE RULE | COMMENT
           | INCLUDE ) ... ] '}'

           CAPABILITY = (lowercase capability name without 'CAP_' prefix; see
           capabilities(7))

           NETWORK RULE = 'network' [ [ DOMAIN ] [ TYPE ] [ I <PROTOCOL> ] ]
           ','

           DOMAIN = ( 'inet' | 'ax25' | 'ipx' | 'appletalk' | 'netrom' |
           'bridge' | 'atmpvc' | 'x25' | 'inet6' | 'rose' | 'netbeui' |
           'security' | 'key' | 'packet' | 'ash' | 'econet' | 'atmsvc' | 'sna'
           | 'irda' | 'pppox' | 'wanpipe' | 'bluetooth' ) ','

           TYPE = ( 'stream' | 'dgram' | 'seqpacket' |  'rdm' | 'raw' |
           'packet' )

           PROTOCOL = ( 'tcp' | 'udp' | 'icmp' )

           PROGRAM = (non-whitespace characters except for '^', must start
           with '/'. Embedded spaces or tabs must be quoted.)

           PROGRAMHAT = '^'  (non-whitespace characters; see change_hat(2) for
           a description of how this "hat" is used.)

           FILE RULE = ( '"' FILEGLOB '"' | FILEGLOB ) ACCESS ','

           FILEGLOB = (must start with '/' (after variable expansion), ?*[]{}^
           have special meanings; see below. May include VARIABLE. Rules with
           embedded spaces or tabs must be quoted. Rules must end with '/' to
           apply to directories.)

           ACCESS = ( 'r' | 'w' | 'l' | 'ix' | 'ux' | 'Ux' | 'px' | 'Px' | 'm'
           ) [ ACCESS ... ]  (not all combinations are allowed; see below.)

           VARIABLE = '@{' ALPHA [ ALPHANUMERIC ... ] '}'

           VARIABLE ASSIGNMENT = VARIABLE ('=' | '+=') (space separated
           values)

           ALIAS RULE = ABS PATH '->' REWRITTEN ABS PATH ','

           ALPHA = ('a', 'b', 'c', ... 'z', 'A', 'B', ... 'Z')

           ALPHANUMERIC = ('1', '2', '3', ... '9', 'a', 'b', 'c', ... 'z',
           'A', 'B', ... 'Z')

       All resources and programs need a full path. There may be any number of
       subprofiles ("hats") in a profile, limited only by kernel memory.
       Subprofile names are limited to 974 characters.  Not all profiles
       benefit from subprofiles --- applications must either be written or
       modified to use change_hat(2) to take advantage of subprofiles. Several
       change_hat(2)-aware applications exist, including an Apache module,
       mod_apparmor(5); a PAM module, pam_apparmor; and a Tomcat valve,
       tomcat_apparmor.

   Access Modes
       File permission access modes consists of combinations of the following
       modes:

       r    - read
       w    - write -- conflicts with append
       a    - append -- conflicts with write
       ux   - unconfined execute
       Ux   - unconfined execute -- scrub the environment
       px   - discrete profile execute
       Px   - discrete profile execute -- scrub the environment
       ix   - inherit execute
       m    - allow PROT_EXEC with mmap(2) calls
       l    - link
       k    - lock

   Access Modes Details
       r - Read mode
           Allows the program to have read access to the file or directory
           listing. Read access is required for shell scripts and other
           interpreted content.

       w - Write mode
           Allows the program to have write access to the file. Files and
           directories must have this permission if they are to be unlinked
           (removed.)  Write mode is not required on a directory to rename or
           create files within the directory.

           This mode conflicts with append mode.

       a - Append mode
           Allows the program to have a limited appending only write access to
           the file.  Append mode will prevent an application from opening the
           file for write unless it passes the O_APPEND parameter flag on
           open.

           The mode conflicts with Write mode.

       ux - Unconfined execute mode
           Allows the program to execute the program without any AppArmor
           profile being applied to the program.

           This mode is useful when a confined program needs to be able to
           perform a privileged operation, such as rebooting the machine. By
           placing the privileged section in another executable and granting
           unconfined execution rights, it is possible to bypass the mandatory
           constraints imposed on all confined processes. For more information
           on what is constrained, see the apparmor(7) man page.

           WARNING 'ux' should only be used in very special cases. It enables
           the designated child processes to be run without any AppArmor
           protection.  'ux' does not scrub the environment of variables such
           as LD_PRELOAD; as a result, the calling domain may have an undue
           amount of influence over the callee.  Use this mode only if the
           child absolutely must be run unconfined and LD_PRELOAD must be
           used. Any profile using this mode provides negligible security. Use
           at your own risk.

           Incompatible with 'Ux', 'px', 'Px', 'ix'.

       Ux - unconfined execute -- scrub the environment
           'Ux' allows the named program to run in 'ux' mode, but AppArmor
           will invoke the Linux Kernel's unsafe_exec routines to scrub the
           environment, similar to setuid programs. (See ld.so(8) for some
           information on setuid/setgid environment scrubbing.)

           WARNING 'Ux' should only be used in very special cases. It enables
           the designated child processes to be run without any AppArmor
           protection.  Use this mode only if the child absolutely must be run
           unconfined. Use at your own risk.

           Incompatible with 'ux', 'px', 'Px', 'ix'.

       px - Discrete Profile execute mode
           This mode requires that a discrete security profile is defined for
           a program executed and forces an AppArmor domain transition. If
           there is no profile defined then the access will be denied.

           WARNING 'px' does not scrub the environment of variables such as
           LD_PRELOAD; as a result, the calling domain may have an undue
           amount of influence over the callee.

           Incompatible with 'Ux', 'ux', 'Px', 'ix'.

       Px - Discrete Profile execute mode -- scrub the environment
           'Px' allows the named program to run in 'px' mode, but AppArmor
           will invoke the Linux Kernel's unsafe_exec routines to scrub the
           environment, similar to setuid programs. (See ld.so(8) for some
           information on setuid/setgid environment scrubbing.)

           Incompatible with 'Ux', 'ux', 'px', 'ix'.

       ix - Inherit execute mode
           Prevent the normal AppArmor domain transition on execve(2) when the
           profiled program executes the named program. Instead, the executed
           resource will inherit the current profile.

           This mode is useful when a confined program needs to call another
           confined program without gaining the permissions of the target's
           profile, or losing the permissions of the current profile. There is
           no version to scrub the environment because 'ix' executions don't
           change privileges.

           Incompatible with 'Ux', 'ux', 'Px', 'px'. Implies 'm'.

       m - Allow executable mapping
           This mode allows a file to be mapped into memory using mmap(2)'s
           PROT_EXEC flag. This flag marks the pages executable; it is used on
           some architectures to provide non-executable data pages, which can
           complicate exploit attempts. AppArmor uses this mode to limit which
           files a well-behaved program (or all programs on architectures that
           enforce non-executable memory access controls) may use as
           libraries, to limit the effect of invalid -L flags given to ld(1)
           and LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, given to ld.so(8).

       l - Link mode
           Allows the program to be able to create a link with this name.
           When a link is created, the new link MUST have a subset of
           permissions as the original file (with the exception that the
           destination does not have to have link access.) If there is an 'x'
           rule on the new link, it must match the original file exactly.

       k - lock mode
           Allows the program to be able lock a file with this name.  This
           permission covers both advisory and mandatory locking.

   Comments
       Comments start with # and may begin at any place within a line. The
       comment ends when the line ends. This is the same comment style as
       shell scripts.

   Capabilities
       The only capabilities a confined process may use may be enumerated; for
       the complete list, please refer to capabilities(7). Note that granting
       some capabilities renders AppArmor confinement for that domain
       advisory; while open(2), read(2), write(2), etc., will still return
       error when access is not granted, some capabilities allow loading
       kernel modules, arbitrary access to IPC, ability to bypass
       discretionary access controls, and other operations that are typically
       reserved for the root user.

       The only operations that cannot be controlled in this manner are
       mount(2), umount(2), and loading new AppArmor policy into the kernel,
       which are always denied to confined processes.

   Network Rules
       AppArmor supports simple coarse grained network mediation.  The network
       rule restrict all socket(2) based operations.  The mediation done is a
       course grained check on whether a socket of a given type and family can
       be created, read, or written.  There is no mediation based of port
       number or protocol beyond tcp, udp, and raw.

       AppArmor network rules are accumulated so that the granted network
       permissions are the union of all the listed network rule permissions.

       AppArmor network rules are broad and general and become more
       restrictive as further information is specified.

       eg.

       network,       #allow access to all networking network
       tcp,        #allow access to tcp network inet tcp,   #allow access to
       tcp only for inet4 addresses network inet6 tcp,  #allow access to tcp
       only for inet6 addresses

   Variables
       AppArmor's policy language allows embedding variables into file rules
       to enable easier configuration for some common (and pervasive) setups.
       Variables may have multiple values assigned, but any variable
       assignments must be made before the start of the profile.

       The parser will automatically expand variables to include all values
       that they have been assigned; it is an error to reference a variable
       without setting at least one value.

       At the time of this writing, only @{HOME} and @{HOMEDIRS} are defined
       in the AppArmor policy provided, in the /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home
       file; these variables are used in many of the abstractions described
       later.  You may also add files in /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d for
       site-specific customization of @{HOMEDIRS}.

   Alias rules
       AppArmor also provides alias rules for remapping paths for site-
       specific layouts. They are an alternative form of path rewriting to
       using variables, and are done after variable resolution.

   Globbing
       File resources may be specified with a globbing syntax similar to that
       used by popular shells, such as csh(1), bash(1), zsh(1).

       *   can substitute for any number of characters, excepting '/'

       **  can substitute for any number of characters, including '/'

       ?   can substitute for any single character excepting '/'

       [abc]
           will substitute for the single character a, b, or c

       [a-c]
           will substitute for the single character a, b, or c

       {ab,cd}
           will expand to one rule to match ab, one rule to match cd

       When AppArmor looks up a directory the pathname being looked up will
       end with a slash (e.g., /var/tmp/); otherwise it will not end with a
       slash. Only rules that match a trailing slash will match directories.
       Some examples, none matching the /tmp/ directory itself, are:

       /tmp/*
           Files directly in /tmp.

       /tmp/*/
           Directories directly in /tmp.

       /tmp/**
           Files and directories anywhere underneath /tmp.

       /tmp/**/
           Directories anywhere underneath /tmp.

   #include mechanism
       AppArmor provides an easy abstraction mechanism to group common file
       access requirements; this abstraction is an extremely flexible way to
       grant site-specific rights and makes writing new AppArmor profiles very
       simple by assembling the needed building blocks for any given program.

       The use of '#include' is modelled directly after cpp(1); its use will
       replace the '#include' statement with the specified file's contents.
       #include "/absolute/path" specifies that /absolute/path should be used.
       #include "relative/path" specifies that relative/path should be used,
       where the path is relative to the current working directory.  #include
       <magic/path> is the most common usage; it will load magic/path relative
       to a directory specified to apparmor_parser(8).  /etc/apparmor.d/ is
       the AppArmor default.

       The supplied AppArmor profiles follow several conventions; the
       abstractions stored in /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ are some large
       clusters that are used in most profiles. What follows are short
       descriptions of how some of the abstractions are used.

       abstractions/audio
           Includes accesses to device files used for audio applications.

       abstractions/authentication
           Includes access to files and services typically necessary for
           services that perform user authentication.

       abstractions/base
           Includes files that should be readable and writable in all
           profiles.

       abstractions/bash
           Includes many files used by bash; useful for interactive shells and
           programs that call system(3).

       abstractions/consoles
           Includes read and write access to the device files controlling the
           virtual console, sshd(8), xterm(1), etc. This abstraction is needed
           for many programs that interact with users.

       abstractions/fonts
           Includes access to fonts and the font libraries.

       abstractions/gnome
           Includes read and write access to GNOME configuration files, as
           well as read access to GNOME libraries.

       abstractions/kde
           Includes read and write access to KDE configuration files, as well
           as read access to KDE libraries.

       abstractions/kerberosclient
           Includes file access rules needed for common kerberos clients.

       abstractions/nameservice
           Includes file rules to allow DNS, LDAP, NIS, SMB, user and group
           password databases, services, and protocols lookups.

       abstractions/perl
           Includes read access to perl modules.

       abstractions/user-download
       abstractions/user-mail
       abstractions/user-manpages
       abstractions/user-tmp
       abstractions/user-write
           Some profiles for typical "user" programs will use these include
           files to describe rights that users have in the system.

       abstractions/wutmp
           Includes write access to files used to maintain wtmp(5) and utmp(5)
           databases, used with the w(1) and associated commands.

       abstractions/X
           Includes read access to libraries, configuration files, X
           authentication files, and the X socket.

       The abstractions stored in /etc/apparmor.d/program-chunks/ are intended
       for use by specific program suites, and are not generally useful.

       Some of the abstractions rely on variables that are set in files in the
       /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/ directory. These variables are currently
       @{HOME} and @{HOMEDIRS}. Variables cannot be set in profile scope; they
       can only be set before the profile. Therefore, any profiles that use
       abstractions should either #include <tunables/global> or otherwise
       ensure that @{HOME} and @{HOMEDIRS} are set before starting the profile
       definition. The autodep(8) and genprof(8) utilities will automatically
       emit #include <tunables/global> in generated profiles.

EXAMPLE

       An example AppArmor profile:

               # a variable definition
               @{HOME} = /home/*/ /root/

               # a comment about foo.
               /usr/bin/foo {
                 /bin/mount          ux,
                 /dev/{,u}random     r,
                 /etc/ld.so.cache    r,
                 /etc/foo.conf       r,
                 /etc/foo/*          r,
                 /lib/ld-*.so*       rmix,
                 /lib/lib*.so*       r,
                 /proc/[0-9]**       r,
                 /usr/lib/**         r,
                 /tmp/foo.pid        wr,
                 /tmp/foo.*          lrw,
                 /@{HOME}/.foo_file  rw,

                 # a comment about foo's subprofile, bar.
                 ^bar {
                   /lib/ld-*.so*       rmix,
                   /usr/bin/bar        rmix,
                   /var/spool/*        rwl,
                 }
               }

FILES

       /etc/init.d/boot.apparmor
       /etc/apparmor.d/

SEE ALSO

       apparmor(7), apparmor_parser(8), complain(1), enforce(1),
       change_hat(2), mod_apparmor(5), and
       <http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?apparmor>.