[redhat-lspp] newrole error

[Daniel J Walsh]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:43 -0600, Ted X Toth wrote:
>   
>> I added staff_devpts_t and  sysadm_devpts_t to 
>> /etc/selinux/mls/contexts/securetty_types and even rebooted but still am 
>> getting the same error.
>>     
>
> libselinux and policycoreutils version number?
>
> The upstream version of the libselinux and policycoreutils code diverged
> from the original patch by Dan Walsh (change in file name and
> interface).  Dan's original patch called the file securetty_contexts, so
> you could try renaming or copying the file to that name.  Upstream it
> was renamed to securetty_types for clarity since it only contains types.
>
>   
I have changed latest version to match upstream.

policycoreutils-1.33.12-2.el5 and later
libselinux-1.33.4-2.el5 and later


Should use the new interface and securetty_types

You should not be using X-Windows though since this is an unsupported 
configuration.  I have no idea what will happen with a windows environment.