On 03/05/2012 12:35, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 05/03/12 11:35, David Quigley wrote:
Ok so for some odd reason root's home directory isn't labeled
properly. You can see this by typing ls -Z in / and seeing that /root
is labeled default_t and then checking what it should be by typing
matchpathcon /root. Did you have SELinux disabled at any point? If so
you might want to relabel your entire system (" and reboot). If not
just type restorecon -Rvv /root and it should fix up all of the labels
properly.
Dave
Ok, I looked at the things you suggested and yes it was as you
said.
I have never disabled SELinux on either of these computers,
not
even run in permissive.
I did restorecon -Rvv /root and then things appeared to work
normally again except for the strange prompt "bash-4.2#"
So the I did the "touch /.autorelabel" and rebooted, the
computer churned through a massive effort relabeling and when
it
finally settled things seem to work normally except I still
get
that strange prompt "bash-4.2#" when it has always been
"[root@box6 bobg]#."
I guess it doesn't matter since this is what I see when I
investigate:
[bobg@box9 ~]$ pwd
/home/bobg
[bobg@box9 ~]$ su
Password:
bash-4.2# pwd
/home/bobg
So I guess I still have root permissions as user bobg; it's
just
the prompt display that's changed now, an insignificant [I
hope]
mystery.
Thanks for your help,
Bob
The difference between su and su - is which environment is used. su
assumes the environment of the person who typed su. su - will reload
roots bashrc and bash_profile. Its possible that one of those two has a
different prompt export in there. I'd recommend checking that.
Dave
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