[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#510652: D-Bus policy file, NM 0.7

[Kel Modderman]

Hi Michael,

On Thursday 05 February 2009 16:40:32 Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just wanted to add some remarks to this bug report:
> NM 0.7 uses wpasupplicant's D-Bus interface extensively and it seems to work
> fine so far. Nonetheless I always get this messages in auth.log
> 
> Feb  5 06:01:10 pluto dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 17 matched rules;
> type="method_return", sender=":1.9" (uid=0 pid=2608 comm="/sbin/wpa_supplicant
> -u -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant") interface="(unset)" member="(unset)" error
> name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.68" (uid=0 pid=3564
> comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /var/run/Netwo"))
> Feb  5 06:01:15 pluto dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 18 matched rules;
> type="error", sender=":1.518" (uid=0 pid=9360 comm="/sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -f
> /var/log/wpa_supplicant") interface="(unset)" member="(unset)" error
> name="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.InvalidInterface" requested_reply=0
> destination=":1.68" (uid=0 pid=3564 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file
> /var/run/Netwo"))
> 
> This happens right after NM has started wpasupplicant (via dbus activation).
> During "normal" operation, I don't get any denials.
> 
> This is definitely something, that needs further investigation.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> PS: Please CC on replies

Can you please try to reproduce with wpa_supplicant 0.6.8, it contains a patch
[0] which may address this issue.

There is a package at [1].

Thanks, Kel.

[0] http://w1.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap-06.git;a=commitdiff;h=6f3288c6827b45eff20be7ae362608ae2a22d9c0
[1] http://sidux.net/kelmo/debian/pool/main/w/wpasupplicant/