-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 installed fedora 8, finally, but not with out a few problems and reinstalls. next to last install was a clean boot straight up to command line login. first 3 login attempts were as user, then 3 failures as root. 3 finger salute, rebooted to m2k8 to view f8 logs, which showed error to be pam_unix related. posted problem, went off list to try a few tricks, concluded had to be pam_unix and decided that fresh install would be thing to do. clear partition, reinstalled again. this time, i disabled selinux so that i could check to see if there might be other problems. there were not as i was able to login as root. started kde, made changes to desktop, exited kde, rebooted. logged back in made a few changes to networking and a couple others. nothing related to selinux, firewall or anything security related were changed. rebooted and back into kde, i enabled selinux at enforcing, rebooted. this time around, tried to login, but was kicked back out. 3 finger again. on next boot, i went in init 1, checked logs again and found pam_unix was back to kicking me out. not to be out done, this time i thought about what was happening i vi'ed a config file, 'reboot'. back at login, root was accepted, kde, then 'system | selinux management'. all looked good, not wanting to change anything yet, i left it as it was and closed selinux management. back at desktop, right click for short menu to log out of kde. nothing. left click. nothing. 3 finger back to cl, reboot, back up level 3. login ok, kde ok. other than reading about selinux in 'linux format' mag, i have yet to read any more about, but i will be. so, what i would like to know, why is 'enforcing' keeping me from logging in? in replying, please trim out non relative text. i thank you and so will others. i look forward to replies to find if this is a bug or a miss config. i thank you in advance for your time. later. - -- tc,hago. g . without fences, who needs gates. - --. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIIY1rQCGYa6nWX2MRAmaOAJ9vx9VuvODef4L5h6K7bML6VvsLngCdG89M wjURCAS23BhI89QgOgDYxR4= =2LVX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
