[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#819808: Bug#819808: does not work with hidepid anymore

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tags -1 upstream

Am 02.04.2016 um 16:34 schrieb Marc Dequènes (duck):
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 1.1.92-1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Quack,
> 
> IIRC, around January, my nm-client stopped working. I was relocating so
> I don't know at which exact version things changed.
> 
> I found that mounting /proc with hidepid to 1 or 2 makes all nm clients
> unusable:
> $ nmcli g
> (process:6557): nmcli-CRITICAL **: Error: Could not create NMClient
> object: Unable to authenticate request..
> 
> Without changing session, remounting with hidepid to 0 instantly solves
> the problem:
> $ nmcli g
> STATE      CONNECTIVITY  WIFI-HW  WIFI     WWAN-HW  WWAN
> connected  full          enabled  enabled  enabled  enabled
> 
> The version in stable (0.9.10.0-7) does not have this problem, so this
> is a regression.
> 
> This is a desired and planned (https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/Goals)
> security feature so we should care about this.

It's not a default and supported configuration though, so downgrading
the severity.

That said, please consider raising this issue upstream, at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=NetworkManager

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