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
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