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. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # grep NetworkManager /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_t:s0 Target Context system_u:object_r:system_conf_t:s0 Target Objects /etc/sysctl.conf [ file ] Source NetworkManager Source Path NetworkManager Port <Unknown> Host sdssony.sterndata.local Source RPM Packages Target RPM Packages initscripts-9.35-1.fc17.i686 Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.10.0-95.fc17.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name sdssony.sterndata.local Platform Linux sdssony.sterndata.local 3.3.0-0.rc6.git0.2.fc17.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Mar 5 17:02:45 UTC 2012 i686 i686 Alert Count 3 First Seen Sat 10 Mar 2012 05:46:38 PM CST Last Seen Sun 11 Mar 2012 09:03:09 AM CDT Local ID dcb10873-6853-4f15-b7ad-98be5dca0afb Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1331474589.552:82): avc: denied { read } for pid=581 comm="NetworkManager" name="sysctl.conf" dev="sda5" ino=2360124 scontext=system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:system_conf_t:s0 tclass=file Hash: NetworkManager,NetworkManager_t,system_conf_t,file,read audit2allowunable to open /sys/fs/selinux/policy: Permission denied audit2allow -Runable to open /sys/fs/selinux/policy: Permission denied