Re: SELinux is blocking lightdm login to Xfce

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On 03/12/18 17:35, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Fedora 27, x64
>
> Xfce 4.12
>
> lightdm-1.25.1-5.fc27.x86_64
>
> With SELinux set to Enforcing, I can only log into Xfce as root.
>
> If I set SELinux to Permissive, I can log into anyone.
>
> SEAlert is quite.
>
> In the Audit log, I get:
>
>    # grep lightdm /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep denied
>
> type=AVC msg=audit(1520843479.104:515): avc:  denied  { create } for pid=7554
> comm="lightdm" name=".xsession-errors"
> scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=1
>
> type=AVC msg=audit(1520843479.104:516): avc:  denied  { write open } for  pid=7554
> comm="lightdm" path="/home/tony/.xsession-errors" dev="dm-1" ino=54526689
> scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=1
>
> SELinux is taking a shine to everyone's, except root's,
> .xsession-errors.
>
> How do I fix this?

What do you have for "ls -Z /home/tony/.xsession-errors"?  Mine is...

egreshko@meimei ~]$ ls -Z .xsession-errors
unconfined_u:object_r:xdm_home_t:s0 .xsession-errors

You can try "restorecon /home/tony/.xsession-errors".  You may have to do that as root.

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