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aa-remove-unknown(8)

aa-remove-unknown - remove unknown AppArmor profiles

AA-REMOVE-UNKNOWN(8) AppArmor AA-REMOVE-UNKNOWN(8)

aa-remove-unknown - remove unknown AppArmor profiles

aa-remove-unknown [option]

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.

displays a short usage statement.
dry run; only prints the names of profiles that would be removed

  $ 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'

None. Please report any you find to Gitlab at <https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/issues>.

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2026-10-26 AppArmor 5.0.2

apparmor-utils 5.0.2-r3 · enterprise-packages · ingested 2026-10-27