Hi Miroslav, Thanks for the prompt response. I do not see a specialuser_u file at the location you specified. All I see are the following drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 13:55 . drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Mar 5 12:19 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 253 Nov 9 2011 guest_u -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 389 Nov 9 2011 root -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 514 Nov 9 2011 staff_u -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 578 Nov 9 2011 unconfined_u -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 353 Nov 9 2011 user_u -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 307 Nov 9 2011 xguest_u And here are the versions of the selinux-policy rpm. [root@den-ccm-pub users]# rpm -qa | grep selinux-policy selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-126.el6.noarch selinux-policy-3.7.19-126.el6.noarch Thanks, Anamitra On 3/19/13 6:10 AM, "Miroslav Grepl" <mgrepl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 03/19/2013 09:57 AM, Dominick Grift wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 07:19 +0000, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar (anmajumd) >> wrote: >>> When trying to perform an sftp operation we encounter a failure even in >>> permissive mode. The syslogs during the failure are as follows >>> Is this a known issue? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Anamitra >>> >> This seems to be a default_context/pam issue. >> >> Pam and SSH are not able to determine the login context for your user it >> seems. >> >> Did you create a /etc/selinux/targeted/context/users/specialuser_u file >> with the appropriate default contexts? >Yes, how does this file look? > >Also what does > ># rpm -q selinux-policy >> >> On a slightly unrelated note: >> >> It seems that the chroot/sftp functionality is broken. >> >> One no longer logs in as chroot_user_t. Either this has changed or its >> broken. >> >> If it has changed then why is there still policy for chroot_user_t? >> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> selinux mailing list >>> selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux >> >> -- >> selinux mailing list >> selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux > -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux