AA-DISABLE(8)

✨ AA-DISABLE(8) ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is aa-disable(8), straight out of the AppArmor family, and honestly? it's giving "but what if that profile just... ✨didn't✨". no cap.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

aa-disable — disable an AppArmor security profile. that's it, that's the whole vibe. bye profile 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

aa-disable <executable> [<executable> ...] [-d /path/to/profiles]
[--no-reload] [-r]

so you hand it one <executable>... or like, a whole friend group of <executable>s, and optionally tell it where your profiles live with -d /path/to/profiles, optionally skip the reload with --no-reload, and there's that -r sitting right there at the end. iconic.

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• -d, --dir /path/to/profiles — tells the tool where to go looking for your AppArmor security profile set. if you don't say anything it just defaults to /etc/apparmor.d like a creature of habit 🫶
• --no-reload — literally do not unreload the profile after modifying it. that's the whole thing. it just... doesn't unreload. 😌

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so aa-disable exists to disable one or more profiles. not vaguely, not spiritually — actually disabled.

this command will unload the profile from the kernel and prevent the profile from being loaded on AppArmor startup. so it's gone now and it's gone next boot. double threat, honestly.

and if you ever change your mind (happens to the best of us), the aa-enforce and aa-complain utilities may be used to to change this behavior. yes the original really does say "to to" and I am not fixing it, that's part of the lore now 🙈

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💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? okay bestie, do NOT suffer in silence, report it at <https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/issues>. that's the link, that's the assignment, go be a main character ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the extended universe, fr fr:

• apparmor(7)
• apparmor.d(5)
• aa-enforce(1)
• aa-complain(1)
• aa_change_hat(2)
• <https://wiki.apparmor.net>

go read all of those, iykyk 👑

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lowkey reminder: this disables a security profile. so yeah, it works, it's fine, it's exactly what it says on the tin — just know what you're turning off before you turn it off 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by AppArmor 6.0.0~alpha1, dated 2026-10-05, filed under AA-DISABLE(8). slay, periodt 🎀✨