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Recently there an article in about configuring FF with AppArmor.
When I ran the below command
cat /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox | sudo apparmor_parser –a
I get the following error
Error: Could not read profile –a: No such file or directory.
How to get rid of this error?
Also, I don’t use the FF which comes with Ubuntu, but I download latest FF and start using it. What changes to the command are required?
Simply run this instead of using cat:
sudo apparmor_parser /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox
-a or add is the default operation apparmor_parser performs.
Why? the command as you tried it will work if you are logged in as root or you recently used
sudo; the sudo password entry is causing the problem you experienced. In general, for pipes use this syntax:sudo sh -c "command1 | command2"
Note: the
/usr/bin/firefoxAppArmor profile is disabled by default in Ubuntu. As long as the version of Firefox you download installs in/usr/bin(e.g. not your home directory), the default AppArmore profile can be enabled and will work.
/usr/bin/firefox, the policy will be applied to it regardless of version or source.
sudo aa-status: /usr/lib/firefox-**7.0.1**/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}. But now I'm seeing just this with the same command: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}. That's why I thought that version number was important. (My version is now Fx 14.)
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}, /usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}//browser_java, /usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}//browser_openjdk, /usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}//sanitized_helper `