F12 beta, ldap authentication and NFS mounted home

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Oct 22 12:28:04 UTC 2009


On 10/22/2009 02:16 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> On 10/22/2009 02:04 AM, Tim Fenn wrote:
>> I upgraded a machine from F10 to F12 beta - its a client machine that
>> mounts /home over NFS and authenticates over LDAP (however, its a mac
>> server that sets /home as /Volumes/Homes, which I have set up as a
>> pointer to /home). use_nfs_home_dirs is on and I can log in via SSH or
>> the console, but the graphical login fails when clicking "log in" with
>> the following selinux error:
>>
>> SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/ck-get-x11-server-pid "read" access
>> on Homes.
>>
>> I've attached the full sealart, am I missing something obvious/simple?
>>
> 
> FWIW, I had something similar with gdm-greeter, I think. I also had a
> different problem[1] with gdm so I didn't give it much attention at the
> time.
> 
> -- Jeroen
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530041
> 
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I need to see the AVC in /var/log/audit/audit.log to make sure I know the reason.

Make sure the use_nfs_home_dirs boolean is turned on.

# getsebool use_nfs_home_dirs
use_nfs_home_dirs --> on






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