aa-notify - display information about logged AppArmor messages.

NAME

aa-notify - display information about logged AppArmor messages.

SYNOPSIS

aa-notify [option]

DESCRIPTION

aa-notify will display a summary or provide desktop notifications for AppArmor DENIED messages.

OPTIONS

aa-notify accepts the following arguments:

-p, --poll

poll AppArmor logs and display desktop notifications. Can be used with '-s' option to display a summary on startup.

--display $DISPLAY

set the DISPLAY environment variable to $DISPLAY (might be needed if sudo resets $DISPLAY)

-f FILE, --file=FILE

search FILE for AppArmor messages

-l, --since-last

show summary since last login.

-s NUM, --since-days=NUM

show summary for last NUM of days.

-u USER, --user=USER

user to drop privileges to when running privileged. When used with the -p option, this should be set to the user that will receive desktop notifications. This has no effect when running under sudo.

-w NUM, --wait=NUM

wait NUM seconds before displaying notifications (for use with -p)

-v, --verbose

show messages with summaries.

-h, --help

displays a short usage statement.

CONFIGURATION

System-wide configuration for aa-notify is done via /etc/apparmor/notify.conf:

# Set to 'no' to disable AppArmor notifications globally
show_notifications="yes"

# Special profiles used to remove privileges for unconfined binaries using user namespaces. If unsure, leave as is.
userns_special_profiles="unconfined,unprivileged_userns"

# Theme for aa-notify GUI. See https://ttkthemes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/themes.html for available themes.
interface_theme="ubuntu"

# Binaries for which we ignore userns-related capability denials
ignore_denied_capability="sudo,su"

# OPTIONAL - kind of operations which display a popup prompt.
prompt_filter="userns"

# OPTIONAL - restrict using aa-notify to users in the given group
# (if not set, everybody who has permissions to read the logfile can use it)
# use_group="admin"

# OPTIONAL - custom notification message body
message_body="This is a custom notification message."

# OPTIONAL - custom notification message footer
message_footer="For more information visit https://foo.com"

# OPTIONAL - custom notification filtering
# Filters are used to reduce the output of information to only those entries that will match the filter. Filters use Python's regular expression syntax.
filter.profile="^(foo|bar)$"  # Match the profile:            Only shows notifications for profiles "foo" or "bar"
filter.operation="^open$"     # Match the operation:          Only shows notifications for "open" operation
filter.name="^(?!/usr/lib/)"  # Match the name:               Excludes notifications for names starting by "/usr/lib/"
filter.denied="^r$"           # Match the denied_mask:        Only shows notifications where "r", and only "r", was denied
filter.family="^inet$"        # Match the network family:     Only shows notifications for "inet" family
filter.socket="stream"        # Match the network socket type: Only shows notifications for "stream" sockets

Per-user configuration is done via $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/apparmor/notify.conf (or the deprecated ~/.apparmor/notify.conf if it exists):

# set to 'yes' to enable AppArmor DENIED notifications
show_notifications="yes"

BUGS

aa-notify needs to be able to read the logfiles containing the AppArmor DENIED messages.

If you find any additional bugs, please report them to Gitlab at https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/issues.

SEE ALSO

apparmor(7)

 aa-notify - display information about logged AppArmor messages.