snappy-hwe-snaps

network-manager snap does not support setting up a wifi AP

Bug #1832494 reported by Alfonso Sanchez-Beato on 2019-06-12

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	snappy-hwe-snaps	Fix Released	High	Alfonso Sanchez-Beato

Bug Description

The network-manager snap does not support setting up a wifi AP. This happens because it does not have permissions to load modules and to run the dnsmasq binary included in UC16:

[ 2786.241020] audit: type=1400 audit(1561456439.265:42): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" profile="snap.network-manager.networkmanager" name="/bin/kmod" pid=1728 comm="NetworkManager" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=0 ouid=0

Jun 12 10:01:31 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1212]: <error> [1560333691.7780] device (wlan0): share: (wlan0) failed to start dnsmasq: Failed to execute child process "/usr/sbin/dnsmasq" (Permission denied)

An example command used to create an AP is:

$ nmcli d wifi hotspot ifname wlan0 ssid test password "test1234"

In the case of UC18, dnsmasq is not included in the image.

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