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Making a very less privelleged user accounts
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I have two apparmor profiles targeting shell scripts, which can run other programs. One is "audit" (permissive with logging) and the other is "safe" (enforcing).
The safe profile still has a lot of read access, but not to any directories or files with secrets or private data. Write access is only to the paths and files it needs, and I regularly extend it.
For a specific program that should have very restricted network access, I have some iptables (& ip6tables) rules that only apply to a particular gid, and I have a setgid wrapper script.
Note: This is all better than nothing, but proper segregation would be better. Running things on separate PCs, VMs or even unpriviliged containers.
I have heard a lot of this apparmor but don't know anything about it. I know the name explains it, but what is it exactly? What does it do?
Also you say as if creating profiles and users are different? Isn't creating user accounts same as creating a new profile in linux, or am I confusing with profiles which are in apparmor?
Would appreciate some articles and tutorials regarding apparmor
An apparmor profile is associated with an executable, based on its filesystem path. I think distributions tend to support either SELinux or Apparmor, but some (like Arch) support both.
Apparmor profiles are easier to reason about than SELinux, I find.
@jbloggs777 @LifeLemons While it's true distributions tend to choose apparmor or selinux by default (apparmor in the case of debian derived OS's and selinux in the case of Redhat derived OS's), all four are actually supported by the kernel and most distros include all in their repositories it's just that those come installed by default.