Any idea what causes this message?

Knute Johnson knute at frazmtn.com
Sun Jan 6 00:13:14 UTC 2008


>Its a mislabeled file.  /var/log/btmp should be labeled faillog_t
>
>restorecon -R -v /var/log
>
>to fix up everything in /var/log.  btmp is used whenever there is a
>login failure (I think only failure...)
>
>not sure how it got mislabeled (what is supposed to create it, anyone
>know?  do you remember at some time untaring a bunch of files
>in /var/log?   or cp'ing in files?  somehow it got created without the
>'right' label) but it is occasional because people only occasionally
>screw up logging in and you get the denial because it is mislabeled.
>Fix the label and you should be good from now on.
>
>-Eric

Thanks, it was mislabeled.  I don't know how but it's fixed now.

-- 
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...





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