fc3 - password change problem - syslog and portmapper

[Jayendren Anand Maduray]

Hi!
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On Wednesday 23 February 2005 19:08, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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:
> >>Got FC3 running SELINUX in enforcing mode.
> >>
> >>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
> >
> >available
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>i am running kernel Linux shiva 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp
> >
> >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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