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3 Getting Started with Novell
AppArmor
Novell AppArmor Powered by Immunix (Novell AppArmor) provides you with tech-
nologies to protect your applications from their own vulnerabilities by creating Novell
AppArmor profiles for applications on your SUSE Linux system.
3.1 Launching Novell AppArmor through
the YaST GUI
SUSE Linux offers the utility YaST. Using YaST, you can launch the Novell AppArmor
interface. This is the recommended method for a novice Linux user. For the other
available methods, refer to
Section 3.2, “Building and Managing Novell AppArmor
Profiles” (page 24).
• To start YaST, select System → Control Center (YaST) from the SUSE menu.
YaST is launched as shown in Section 3.2, “Novell AppArmor Basics” (page x),
below. You can refer to this section to navigate in Novell AppArmor.
NOTE
Alternately, you can launch the YaST GUI by opening a terminal window then
entering
yast2
while logged in as root.
3.2 Novell AppArmor Basics
Novell AppArmor enables you to manage profiles through a simple user interface.
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