fc3 - password change problem - syslog and portmapper

[Daniel J Walsh]

Jayendren Anand Maduray wrote:

>Hi!
>
>having problems with selinux for sylog and portmapper. Also cannot change 
>password with selinux enable.
>it is running in targeted mode.
>I have been checking with nsa-selinux forum, and some of the ppl recommend 
>that i ask this forum.
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You need to relabel you file system.  I would update to the latest 
policy and relabel your
file system

yum upgrade selinux-policy-targeted
touch /.autorelabel
reboot

>from nsa-linux:
>On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 08:09 +0200, Jayendren Anand Maduray wrote:
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>>Got FC3 running SELINUX in enforcing mode.
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>>1. however when i try to change my password, i get the ffg error:
>>SystemError: couldn't get security context of `/etc/passwd': No data 
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>available
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>>2. also, when i boot up, syslogd, and portmap cannot start, so i disabled it 
>>in SELinux. i would like to get this to work, though.
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>>i am running kernel Linux shiva 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp
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>The most likely scenario is that you never labeled your filesystems, or
>that you ran with SELinux disabled for some period of time and thus
>ended up with some files without security labels.  Touch /.autorelabel
>and reboot, or run /sbin/fixfiles relabel and reboot.  BTW, this kind of
>question belongs on fedora-selinux-list, not here, IMHO.
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