Re: adding users with different home directory ( /1home instead of /home)

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On 07/20/2011 01:11 AM, Jatin K wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 July 2011 06:10 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>> On 07/19/2011 07:57 AM, Jatin K wrote:
>>> Dear all
>>> 
>>> I'm RHEL 6 , trying to add a user with following command
>>> 
>>> useradd -d /1home user1 passwd user1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> if I try ssh user1@localhost , following error displayed on the 
>>> screen
>>> 
>>> Could not chdir to home directory /1home/user1: Permission denied
>>> , but user still able to login   and prompts displayed
>>> [user1@testsrv /]$ instead of [user1@testsrv ~]$  ( user not
>>> getting its home directory.) -------------following is the
>>> reference related to home directory permission and
>>> security--------------- directory permission
>>> 
>>> ls -ld /1home
>>> 
>>> drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Jul 19 10:43 /1home
>>> 
>>> ------------------------------------- SELinux Context
>>> 
>>> ls -ldZ /1home
>>> 
>>> drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 /1home/
>>> 
>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> what could be the problem ???
>>> 
>> You have an SELinux labeling problem
> 
> Thank you very very much .....
> 
> I run following and the problem is solved
> 
> chcon --reference /home /1home/*
> 
>> Simplest solution.
>> 
>> # semanage fcontext -a -e /home /1home # restorecon -R -v /1home
>> 
> sorry I have not tried your said command as SELinux management tool
> is not installed I think,  it says semange  command not found but can
> you spotlight on  difference between your said command and which I
> run
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Warm Regards

semanage not semange

# which semanage
/usr/sbin/semanage

In your case you just labeled eveything in /1home as home_root_t, which
is wrong.  Also if the system gets relabeled, your labelling will be lost.


Mine says to set the system defaults to label everything under /1home as
if it was under /home


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