Manual: aa-remove-unknown

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NAME
       aa-remove-unknown - remove unknown AppArmor profiles

SYNOPSIS
       aa-remove-unknown [option]

DESCRIPTION
       aa-remove-unknown will inventory all profiles in /etc/apparmor.d/, compare that list to the profiles currently loaded
       into the kernel, and then remove all of the loaded profiles that were not found in /etc/apparmor.d/. It will also
       report the name of each profile that it removes on standard out.

OPTIONS
       -h, --help
	   displays a short usage statement.

       -n  dry run; only prints the names of profiles that would be removed

EXAMPLES
	 $ sudo ./aa-remove-unknown -n
	 Would remove 'test//null-/usr/bin/whoami'
	 Would remove 'test'

	 $ sudo ./aa-remove-unknown
	 Removing 'test//null-/usr/bin/whoami'
	 Removing 'test'

BUGS
       None. Please report any you find to Gitlab at .

SEE ALSO
       apparmor(7)

AppArmor 5.0.0~beta1					 2026-04-08					AA-REMOVE-UNKNOWN(8)