SELinux issues (I think) with FC2T2

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 21:48:44 UTC 2004


Markku Kolkka wrote:

>Gene C. kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 30. 
>maaliskuuta 2004 18:41):
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>>>3 - While trying to start from gnome using redhat/system
>>>settings/login screen, it asks for root password but never
>>>starts.
>>>      
>>>
>>I suspect this is the same thing I saw with
>>system-config-soundcard being invoked.  See
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119433
>>    
>>
>
>The same thing happens with all applications that use 
>consolehelper.
>
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Basically there is a bug in policy,  If you change your user to staff_r 
instead of user_r this will fix it.  (You need to relabel
homedir after you do this.)

Alternately you could modify the user_u line in users to have the following

user user_u roles { user_r sysadm_r system_r };

Dan









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