Alert from turning off/on wireless

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Mar 12 18:59:49 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 12:09 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> On my (very old) laptop, I turned off the wireless (via the hardware
> switch) then turned it back on, generating an alert.  This action
> should be allowed by the default policy.  (Fedora 17)
> 
> 
> SELinux is preventing NetworkManager from read access on the file
> /etc/sysctl.conf.
> 
> *****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests
> ***************************
> 
> If you believe that NetworkManager should be allowed read access on
> the sysctl.conf file by default.
> Then you should report this as a bug.

^^^^^^

That's what you want to do.

The sealert wizard lets you file a denial as a bug. Do that, include
your explanation in the bug, and you'll get a response very quickly -
SELinux team is very efficient at handling these. Thanks for the report!
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