Bug 1668840

Summary: NetworkManager Wireless Hotspot requires further dnsmasq permissions
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Benjamin Berg <bberg>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Lukas Vrabec <lvrabec>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Milos Malik <mmalik>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 8.0CC: bberg, berend.de.schouwer, bgalvani, lvrabec, mmalik, plautrba, ssekidde, thaller, zpytela
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 8.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/issues/238
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Description Benjamin Berg 2019-01-23 17:01:46 UTC 
Description of problem:

NetworkManager uses dnsmasq to provider DHCP to clients when sharing an internet connection (e.g. wifi hotspot). This has worked fine in the past, but the leases file has been moved which prevents dnsmasq from starting up.

The change in NetworkManager triggering this issue is:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/b4116a6fe6a5cfc05c0b81f71dd44b59c7ca0c43

The fix is to allow dnsmasq to access "/var/lib/NetworkManager/dnsmasq-.*\.leases".


This issue affects NetworkManager >=1.14.
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 22:09:45 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3547