[Apparmor-general] apparmor vs chroot

Michael James Michael.James at csiro.au
Tue Mar 6 22:35:17 MST 2007


AppArmor provides a more flexible, more secure alternative to chroot.

Is this true to the extent that it should completely replace chroot?

Does this mean we can safely ditch all the chroot cruft
 surrounding daemons like dhcpd, named, postfix, etc?

What's the philosophy of the profile writers, do we plan to do it?

Are there sets of AppArmor profiles designed for un-chroot-ed daemons?

I'm asking this question largely in a SuSE context,
 hoping to reduce the named init script to something manageable.

TIA

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