selinux breaks fish/sftp in konqueror?
Harald Hoyer
harald at redhat.com
Wed Apr 7 13:30:08 UTC 2004
try booting with "selinux=0 enforcing=0" ... this should completly
disable selinux
Kepa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After I set grub boot for selinux=0, I found myself unable to use fish
> and sftp from within konqueror (but sftp would work from within a
> terminal). Even connections to localhost would not work, no error
> messages given, just hung interminably.
>
> After re-labelling the system and setting selinux=1 I can once again use
> fish/sftp.
>
> Now, is there some way I can totally get rid of selinux? Just, gone, no
> trace, and I hope to never see it again, without re-installing
> everything?
>
> I'm trying to use fc test2 as a desktop, not a server. I realize it is
> unstable, but I would like to focus on unstable desktop issues, not
> server-side. Also, it is hard to be sure if it selinux misbehaving or
> something else.
>
> I must of missed the option not to include it in the install program,
> but I don't remember anything.
>
> Not so sure why the inclusion of selinux, anyway. If FC is supposed to
> be THE linux desktop, then what need is there for excessive security
> that will confuse newbies? And as I understand it, since FC is now the
> beta-test platform for redhat, who would use it as a server OS, anyway?
> I will stick to RH 9 or bsd for serving, but I want to see FC the best
> linux desktop out there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kepa
>
>
>
>
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