AA-STATUS(8) AppArmor AA-STATUS(8)
NAME
aa-status - display various information about the current AppArmor
policy.
SYNOPSIS
aa-status [option]
DESCRIPTION
aa-status will report various aspects of the current state of AppArmor
confinement. By default, it displays the same information as if the
--verbose argument were given. A sample of what this looks like is:
apparmor module is loaded.
110 profiles are loaded.
102 profiles are in enforce mode.
8 profiles are in complain mode.
Out of 129 processes running:
13 processes have profiles defined.
8 processes have profiles in enforce mode.
5 processes have profiles in complain mode.
Other argument options are provided to report individual aspects, to
support being used in scripts.
OPTIONS
aa-status accepts only one argument at a time out of:
--enabled
returns error code if AppArmor is not enabled.
--profiled
displays the number of loaded AppArmor policies.
--enforced
displays the number of loaded enforcing AppArmor policies.
--complaining
displays the number of loaded non-enforcing AppArmor policies.
--kill
displays the number of loaded enforcing AppArmor policies that will
kill tasks on policy violations.
--prompt
displays the number of loaded enforcing AppArmor policies, with
fallback to userspace mediation.
--special-unconfined
displays the number of loaded non-enforcing AppArmor policies that
are in the special unconfined mode.
--process-mixed displays the number of processes confined by profile
stacks with profiles in different modes.
--verbose
displays multiple data points about loaded AppArmor policy set (the
default action if no arguments are given).
--json
displays multiple data points about loaded AppArmor policy set in a
JSON format, fit for machine consumption.
--pretty-json
same as --json, formatted to be readable by humans as well as by
machines.
--show
what data sets to show information about. Currently processes,
profiles, all for both processes and profiles. The default is all.
--count
display only counts for selected information.
--filter.mode=filter
Allows specifying a posix regular expression filter that will be
applied against the displayed processess and profiles apparmor
profile mode, reducing the output.
--filter.profiles=filter
Allows specifying a posix regular expression filter that will be
applied against the displayed processess and profiles confining
profile, reducing the output.
--filter.pid=filter
Allows specifying a posix regular expression filter that will be
applied against the displayed processes, so that only processes
pids matching the expression will be displayed.
--filter.exe=filter
Allows specifying a posix regular expression filter that will be
applied against the displayed processes, so that only processes
executable name matching the expression will be displayed.
--help
displays a short usage statement.
EXIT STATUS
Upon exiting, aa-status will set its exit status to the following
values:
0 if apparmor is enabled and policy is loaded.
1 if apparmor is not enabled/loaded.
2 if apparmor is enabled but no policy is loaded.
3 if the apparmor control files aren't available under
/sys/kernel/security/.
4 if the user running the script doesn't have enough privileges to
read the apparmor control files.
42 if an internal error occurred.
BUGS
aa-status must be run as root to read the state of the loaded policy
from the apparmor module. It uses the /proc filesystem to determine
which processes are confined and so is susceptible to race conditions.
If you find any additional bugs, please report them at
<https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/issues>.
SEE ALSO
apparmor(7), apparmor.d(5), and <https://wiki.apparmor.net>.
AppArmor 4.0.1 2025-03-19 AA-STATUS(8)
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