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On 12/01/2010 10:19 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On this thread, I'm speaking with my manager, and the other admin comes
> in, ranting about selinux, and that he's going to file a bug against it
> with RH.... Seems he installed RHEL6, and had the misfortune of having an
> older Sun keyboard, and may have hit the <caps lock> key when entering the
> root password... and he couldn't log in. So he rebooted to single user
> mode, and ran passwd... which sat there for a while, then quit, with no
> messages. Then he turned off selinux, and passwd worked... so the whole
> selinux thing was a pointless and irritating exercise.
>
> Of course, if selinux had stopped him from turning enforcing off, he'd
> have had to reboot from the rescue disk, at the least, and reinstall at
> the worst.
>
> The bigger question is why selinux when the system is in single user mode,
> and offline. If someone has console access, and shouldn't have, you have
> management problems, not o/s security problems.
>
> mark
>
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This was a bug that has been fixed or will be fixed in the next release.
Preview available in
http://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/RHEL6/
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