[R] R library highcharter function highchart() execute with exception the apparmor read denied for /etc/passwd and /etc/group

[Bert Gunter]

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On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 7:50 AM Gu, Jay via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
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> Dears,
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> I use the R library highcharter with ubuntu 18.04 and R 3.6.3. Recently, I upgraded to ubuntu 20.04 and R 4.3.1. And the version of library highcharter are both 0.9.4. Then I execute the function highchart() it always throw the exception that child process has died. And I checked the /var/log/kern.log and found below error:
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> Aug 7 08:37:50 ip-172-31-27-249 kernel: [2251703.494866] audit: type=1400 audit(1691397470.399:739): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="managedr-profile" name="/etc/passwd" pid=159930 comm="R" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
> Aug 7 08:37:50 ip-172-31-27-249 kernel: [2251703.494871] audit: type=1400 audit(1691397470.399:740): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="managedr-profile" name="/etc/group" pid=159930 comm="R" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
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> If I add below two lines in my apparmor profile it will resolve this issue. But I don't like to expose these two files to end user as it has potential risk.
> /etc/passwd r,
> /etc/group r,
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> I'd like to know if there is any solution to fix it without giving the read access for these two files /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the apparmor profile as I did with ubuntu 18.04 and R 3.6.3. Thanks!
> Best Regards!
> Jay Gu
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