Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (808 mails)

[Sascha Peilicke <saschpe@xxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 16 August 2011 23:23:56 Christian Boltz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> on Dienstag, 16. August 2011, phanisvara das wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:20:25 +0530, jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I think most user have never any problme with apparmor; In fact I
> > > never had any
> >
> > no problem really; i just un-install it as soon as it tries to block
> > something i need (which happens soon after every fresh install of
> > oS).
>
> Please open a bugreport! Attach /var/log/audit/audit.log and I'm sure
> your problem will be solved (for you and all other users). You can CC me
> (I'm "suse-beta [at] cboltz DOT de" in bugzilla) in these cases - that
> might speed up things a bit.
> And always keep Pascal's wise words (see .signature) in mind! ;-)
So you're the first one stepping up to actually fix something as it seems you
do care for it. That's good.

> (This note is aimed at all people that uninstall AppArmor if it blocks
> something, not only at you.)
>
> > not running a server here and being pretty aware of what's
> > going through my "broadband" connection (512 kB/s) because there is
> > so little of it, i don't see the need for apparmor. there isn't much
> > *nix specific malware in the wild, so i don't really know why it's
> > needed at all,
>
> Because some additional security can never hurt. Even if AppArmor can
> "only" prevent/block a single attack against your system, it was useful
> for you ;-)
Naa, that doesn't justify running apparmor+auditd on my laptop letting it
drain the battery just for the case that I may run postfix on it (which has
decent profiles).
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Sascha Peilicke