Bug 443686

Summary:	wpa_cli unable to talk to wpa_supplicant with selinux enabled
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	tswan <tswan>
Component:	wpa_supplicant	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description tswan 2008-04-22 20:56:54 UTC

Description of problem:

wpa_cli unable to talk to wpa_supplicant with selinux enabled

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 9 PR1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fresh install (default options)
2. edit /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant and remove -u which prevents
wpa_supplicant from running with dbus, add the appropriate interface and drivers
3. restart wpa_supplicant
4. run wpa_cli as root or as a privileged user 
5. cannot talk to wpa_supplicant
6. run the selinux troubleshooter and you can see wpa_cli is prevented from
talking with wpa_supplicant (even as root)
  
Actual results:
wpa_cli doesn't work


Expected results:
wpa_cli should work

Additional info:
none

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2008-04-23 21:20:47 UTC

What AVC are you seeing?  You probably need to customize your policy if you want
this to work.

# grep wpa /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mywpa
# semodule -i mywpa.pp

But since this is local customization it probably will not be supported by the
default SELinux policy.

I am marking this as WONTFIX, for now