On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:48:37 -0600 Paul Rumin <purenrg7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > -- > fedora-selinux-list mailing list > fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list Is your system labeled? If not touch /.autorelabel, then reboot. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097
