> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 11:25 -0500, Omri Schwarz wrote: > > drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:home_root_t etc > > Still wrong. I take it that you have locally customized your policy > sources? Combined with the old genhomedircon and the fact that certain Negative. At the very minimum, I have not intentionally customized the policy sources, although I wonder whether the Redhat Package Manager has in effect done that for me. > users like news have home directories under /etc in /etc/passwd, this > could be the problem. # grep etc /etc/passwd news:x:9:13:news:/etc/news: ntp:x:38:38::/etc/ntp:/sbin/nologin privoxy:x:73:73::/etc/privoxy:/sbin/nologin xfs:x:43:43:X Font Server:/etc/X11/fs:/sbin/nologin None of these accounts have an inherent need for a homedir, unless I am mistaken. As you can see, no real users with directories in homedirs in /etc/, but this system does get directory service from a legacy NIS server that lives in Solaris land and cares nothing for such conventions as real accounts starting in 500. I've just wiped the news account (no need for it), changed homedirs for the remaining three, and am running fixfiles restore. # /sbin/fixfiles restore /usr/sbin/setfiles: conflicting specifications for /etc/services and /var/spool/postfix/etc/services, using system_u:object_r:etc_t. (dum dee dum). Update to follow come next reboot.