Todd Miller wrote:
Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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Adding
mythtv:x:1004:1004::/var/lib/mythtv:/bin/bash
To /etc/passwd causes the labeling to get all screwed up. This would
report an error when we used the python version of genhomedircon and
not foul up the labeling by checking if there was a label for /var/lib
already in the file_context file. (Boy do I love python. :^))
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430195
Dan
That shouldn't be hard to add to genhomedircon.c. I'll take a look.
So, Todd is about to send a patch to fix this but I want to point out
that I'm adverse to this sort of thing. There is a minuid and a null
shell for a reason, using something above minuid with a valid shell for
a non-interactive user is a broken configuration and the fact that we
have to work around it is pretty unfortunate.
That said the alternative of breaking the system labeling is pretty bad,
its probably better to hack around the problem than leave clueless users
with broken configurations stranded but I really wish we didn't have to
do things like this.
*sigh*
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