I would like to preface this with "I am not new to linux, but new to SE-Linux." I am not sure where to begin with this problem. After a clean install of Fedore Core 3 (at least I thought clean), I tried to login in with a user account a few days later. This did not work, so I logged in as root to change my user's password. 1. First, I tried changing the user's password with passwd. Although the program seemed to accept the new password. I still was unable to login in afterwards. 2. So I tried to manually change it within the /etc/passwd file. Knowing that there was a shadow file, I deleted the encrypted password in shadow and the "x" in the /etc/password file. Then, I ran passwd, followed by pwconv. But still nothing. 3. Finally, I tried to just use "su" command into my user's account to no avail. Now I am stuck. My understanding of SE is that you must match securities contents of the files, by using the -Z delimiter, which I did verify. If someone could steer me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thx, Paul BTW, I did also try userdel/useradd with no success.