nm-applet problems with selinux

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 17:50:51 UTC 2006


On 1/28/06, Brian C. huffman <huffman at graze.net> wrote:
> After today's update, nm-applet can't find my wireless device.  This
> shows up in /var/log/messages:
>
> Jan 28 10:33:41 xyz NetworkManager: <WARNING>
> nm_dbus_get_networks_cb (): nm-dbus-nmi.c:527 (nm_dbus_get_networks_cb):
> error received: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied - An SELinux
> policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient
> (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo"
> member "getNetworks" error name "(unset)" destination
> "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo").
>
> Anyone know a workaround?  I disabled selinux and it works fine.
>
> thanks,
> Brian
>

Looks  like NetworkManager 'moved' to /usr/sbin.

'chcon -t NetworkManger_exec_t /usr/sbin/NetworkManager' will help,
but appears to be one more 'misconnect'.

Running in permissive mode (e.g., booting with 'enforcing=0') should
work until this gets fixed.

tom
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Tom London




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