AA-CLEANPROF(8)

✨ NAME ✨

aa-cleanprof — bestie, this one gives an existing AppArmor security profile a full glow-up. ✨ It cleans it. That's the whole job, and it's iconic at it.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

aa-cleanprof <executable> [<executable> ...] [-d /path/to/profiles]
[--no-reload] [-s]

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -d --dir /path/to/profiles — tells it where to go look for the whole AppArmor security profile set. If you don't say anything, it lowkey just assumes /etc/apparmor.d (the default, the moment 🎀).
• --no-reload — don't reload the profile after you've modified it. Like, we changed it, we're just not refreshing it yet, ok?? 🫶
• -s --silent — silently overwrites the profile without user prompt. No asking, no "r u sure bestie", it just does it. 🙈

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So aa-cleanprof runs a cleanup on one or more profiles, and honestly? It's giving spring cleaning. 🧹✨

Here's what it does to your profile:

• it removes any existing superfluous rules — meaning rules that are already covered under an include or another rule (redundant, extra, not needed, we don't know her 💀)
• it reorders the rules so similar rules get grouped together (organization, main character energy, we love to see it 👑)
• it removes all the comments from the file (yes, all of them, the comments are NOT surviving this, no cap 😭)

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🦋 BUGS 🦋

Found a bug? Not the vibe. 😤 Please report it over at:

https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/issues

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

apparmor(7), apparmor.d(5), aa-enforce(1), aa-complain(1), aa-disable(1), aa_change_hat(2), and the wiki at <https://wiki.apparmor.net>.

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you're literally an aa-cleanprof expert now fr fr 💜 This one comes from AppArmor 6.0.0~alpha1 and it's dated 2026-10-05. 🎀 Stay clean, stay slay. 💅⭐