On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 08:19 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: > On 1/19/06, Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hi i just installed my system then shutit down. after booting it up i can't > > login to root so i did a linux rescue with the CD and when i tried to type > > passwd this error message appear? > > > > "user_u:system_r:unconfined_t is not authorized to change the password of > > root" > > This is an selinux error message. Apparently you enabled selinux > during your install, however I've not seen it prevent people from > logging in for ages. Are you trying to log into X as root? That it > might stop. > > When I screwed up my /etc/sysconfig/selinux once I had similar problems. I had selinux set to SELUNIX=enforcing and a bogus SELINUXTYPE= it was not happy, not even in the least bit :) putting in real (and even valid) entries in /etc/sysconfig/selinux fixed my screwup :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060119/c0faf42e/attachment.bin