Description of problem: Selinux policy prevents kismet from running. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): latest How reproducible: yum install kismet add card to kismet.conf turn on selinux start kismet Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: avc: denied { sys_module } for comm=kismet_server egid=0 euid=0 exe=/usr/bin/kismet_server exit=-19 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 pid=9983 scontext=system_u:system_r:kismet_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 sgid=0 subj=system_u:system_r:kismet_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 suid=0 tclass=capability tcontext=system_u:system_r:kismet_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tty=(none) uid=0
Ok, I can add this for Fedora 8 selinux-policy-3.0.8-82, or is it possible for you to load the module from the init script. This is very bad design, and I don't want to add it to rawhide. Allowing a service that listens to random packets to be able to load kernel modules and modify the way the kernel runs, is risky. I would prefer the init script to load any required kernel modules before running the kismet server. Currently we allow very few confined processes to have the sys_module capability.
does kismet run when the module is loaded already? If so, I suggest to create an executable /etc/sysconfig/modules/kismet.module script like | #!/bin/sh | exec /sbin/modprobe <your-module> (I will add this to README.fedora) kismet itself does not have an initscript where module loading can be placed into.
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