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+From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
+Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;bug=412179
+Description: Debian does not use pam_console but uses group membership
+ to control access to D-Bus. Activating both options in the conf file
+ makes it work on Debian and Ubuntu.
+
+--- a/wpa_supplicant/dbus-wpa_supplicant.conf
++++ b/wpa_supplicant/dbus-wpa_supplicant.conf
+@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
+ <allow send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
+ <allow send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
+ </policy>
++ <policy group="netdev">
++ <allow send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
++ <allow send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
++ </policy>
+ <policy context="default">
+ <deny own="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
+ <deny send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>