selinux prob - can't log in via X/gdm

[Niilo Kajander]

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 09:31, Fred New wrote:
> Niilo Kajander wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 08:57, J. Scott Farrow wrote:
> > > Since my last round of yum updates on test2 last night, I'm
> completely
> > > unable to log in via X, either as my normal user, or as root.  I'm
> now
> > > running kernel-2.6.4-1.300 and policy-1.9.2-1.
> > 
> > If you can log in as root on console, try adding SELINUX=permissive to
> > /etc/sysconfig/selinux. Don't worry if that file doesn't exist, as it
> > didn't on my test box ("upgraded" from development version). After
> > creating that file I rebooted and things started working normally.
> 
> Naw... That's cheating.

At least it's a simple workaround. As I don't have the time now to
configure it properly this is the way to go. Disabling it completely
would make enabling later be a real PITA.

-- 
Niilo Kajander <nk at kajander.fi>