On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 21:41 +0000, Mike wrote: > Mike <mike.cloaked <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > Is the problem caused by the fact that the home area is symlinked from > > /home to /opt/Local/home ? > > It turned out that I have managed to fix the issue by changing the contexts > of the files in /opt/Local/home/mike/.ssh to type user_home_t - and now > the ssh problem has gone away. > > I was told by a helpful poster in Fedora list that the fact that my home > areas are on /opt would have resulted in inappropriate contexts for > /opt/Local/home since this would have been different if the partition had > been /home and not under /opt - this was indeed the case and changing > to user_home_t fixed this. > > I therefore suspect that I should change all the contexts to the same type > in /opt/Local/home > > Anyway problem solved for the moment... this kind of information may well > be useful to others who have atypical home areas for ease of doing upgrades. ---- I would suggest that you would be far better off mounting the partition you now called /opt as /home and then move stuff around... i.e. init 1 umount /opt # then edit /etc/fstab so whatever partition mounts at /opt mounts at /home mount /home cd /home mv Local/home/* . # then mv everything that belongs in /opt to /opt # then init 3/5 Craig -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list