qubes-doc/privacy/whonix-customize.md
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Clean up and organize privacy pages
* Logically organize the Whonix-related pages
* Move the VPN page to /configuration/
  * VPNs are used for more than just privacy, and many VPN setups and
    services either can't or don't claim to provide privacy.
* Remove `/privacy/` from URLs
  * These directory names are just for organizing the source pages,
    *unless* an actual page resides there. Since there is no
    /doc/privacy/ page, it's unnecessary and misleading to have this in
    the URLs. It also breaks uniformity, since none of the other pages
    have their informal group name in their URL (again, unless there's
    a page with that name).
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title: Customizing Whonix
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Customizing Whonix
==================
There are numerous ways to customize your Whonix install. All require a degree of technical knowledge and comfort with the command line.
### Enabling AppArmor
This is an optional security enhancement (for testers-only). If you're technical & interested, proceed, but do so *at your own risk!*
Note, if you want to use [Tor bridges](https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Bridges), AppArmor has been known in the past to cause problems with `obfsproxy` [see this issue](https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/issues/67)
You will want to complete the following instructions in both the **Whonix-Gateway** referred to in Qubes VM Manager as `whonix-gw` and the **Whonix-Workstation** or `whonix-ws`. You only need to apply these settings to the TemplateVMs before creating any template based VMs from these Whonix templates.
(This is because, [since Qubes Q3, TemplateBasedVMs inherit the kernelopts setting of their TemplateVM](https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1091).)
### Configuring Whonix-Gateway
Launch the `dom0` terminal app `Konsole` from your Qubes App Launcher. Then get a list of current kernel parameters.
~~~
qvm-prefs -l whonix-gw kernelopts
~~~
As of Qubes Q3 RC1, this will show: `nopat`
Keep those existing kernel parameters and add `apparmor=1 security=apparmor` by entering:
~~~
qvm-prefs -s whonix-gw kernelopts "nopat apparmor=1 security=apparmor"
~~~
When running the command to get a list of current kernel parameters again (just hit the arrow up key twice, so you don't have to type the command again).
~~~
qvm-prefs -l whonix-gw kernelopts
~~~
It should show the old and the new kernel parameters. For example:
~~~
nopat apparmor=1 security=apparmor
~~~
Once you started the VM, you can check if AppArmor is now active.
```
sudo aa-status --enabled ; echo $?
```
It should show: `0`
### Configuring Whonix-Workstation
In `dom0` terminal Konsole, get a list of current kernel parameters.
~~~
qvm-prefs -l whonix-ws kernelopts
~~~
In current version of Qubes, this will show `nopat` as a response. To keep those existing kernel parameters and add `apparmor=1 security=apparmor` do the following:
~~~
qvm-prefs -s whonix-ws kernelopts "nopat apparmor=1 security=apparmor"
~~~
When running the command to get a list of current kernel parameters again (just hit the arrow up key twice, so you don't have to type the command again).
~~~
qvm-prefs -l whonix-ws kernelopts
~~~
It should show the old and the new kernel parameters. For example:<br />
~~~
nopat apparmor=1 security=apparmor
~~~
Once you started the VM, you can check if AppArmor is now active by typing:
~~~
sudo aa-status --enabled ; echo $?
~~~
It should show: `0`