AA-DISABLE(8)

📦 version 4.1.7, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💅 aa-disable — the "girl, go to sleep" button for AppArmor profiles ✨

okay so real talk, this is aa-disable from the AppArmor manual set (section 8, admin tools, iykyk) — and she is literally the main character of "turn that profile off." 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

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

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

so you hand her one or more <executable> thingies, and optionally tell her where the profile set lives, whether to skip the reload, and (yep) there's an -r sitting in the synopsis too. bestie, she's flexible like that. 🦋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -d, --dir /path/to/profiles — tells her where to go looking for the AppArmor security profile set. the default is /etc/apparmor.d, which is where the profiles live like 99% of the time, so you probs don't need to touch this. ✨
  • --no-reload — do not "unreload" the profile after modifying it. yes, the wording is iconic and yes we're keeping it. basically: don't do the reload dance, just leave it. 🙈

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so what does she actually do. aa-disable is used to disable one or more profiles. ✨

here's the tea, and this part is highkey important: this command will unload the profile from the kernel and prevent the profile from being loaded on AppArmor startup. so it's not just a lil nap — it's off-off. 💀

and if you ever wanna walk it back? the aa-enforce and aa-complain utilities may be used to change this behavior. slay. two little besties to help you flip the switch back. 🔥

🐛 BUGS 🐛

if you find any bugs, please report them at <https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/issues>.

like please actually report them, we can't fix vibes we don't know about. 🥺 no cap.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the extended universe, in order:

go read the wiki, it's giving "lore that actually helps." 📚💜

🌈 a lil sign-off 🌈

this page is from the AppArmor suite, version 4.1.7, dated 2026-05-19 (section 8 for the admin-tools girlies 🎀). go forth and disable responsibly, bestie — and remember: unloading from the kernel is forever until you load it again. 💅✨🍓

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