AppArmor

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with AppArmor, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Security profiles are hard to create because there are no good tools for generating them2024-09-04
Commenter finds AppArmor's security profiles confusing and doesn't understand how they work2024-04-15
Apps fail with file-not-found or silent kills, with no visible cause, until blocked paths are whitelisted manually2023-08-19
Same policy behaves unpredictably across distros; denials hard to find in audit tools2022-04-27
Hard to find which AppArmor rule an app violates, so debugging takes ages2020-08-14
Per-app access control on Linux is a nightmare to use2020-06-25
Does not work out of the box, forcing users to configure it before use2017-10-12
AppArmor breaks the desktop and is hard to turn off when it does2017-10-11