hmmm... this is weird because i installed the same way i installed my other
servers i always enabled selinux. But this is the first time i encountered
this.
On 1/19/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 :)
>
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