AppArmor

AppArmor is a mandatory access control mechanism (like SELinux). It can constrain programs based on pre-defined or generated policy definitions.

Void ships with some default profiles for several services, such as dhcpcd and wpa_supplicant. Container runtimes such as LXC and podman integrate with AppArmor for better security for container payloads.

To use AppArmor on a system, one must:

1. Install the apparmor package.
2. Set apparmor=1 security=apparmor on the kernel commandline.

To accomplish the second step, consult the documentation on how to modify the kernel cmdline.

The APPARMOR variable in /etc/default/apparmor controls how profiles will be loaded at boot, the value is set to complain by default and corresponds to AppArmor modes (disable, complain, enforce).

AppArmor tools aa-genprof(8) and aa-logprof(8) require either configured syslog or a running auditd(8) service.