gdm dosen't show my pix on the face greeter (selinux)

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Oct 15 18:57:54 UTC 2007


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Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:02 +0200, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 23:59 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:48 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
>>>> I put a pix of myself in the 'about me' capplet and have a .face in my
>>>> home dir. Why doesn't gdm pick it up?
>>>>
>>>> -Louis
>>> Would this be the cause?
>>>
>>> SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/gdm-binary (xdm_t) "read" to
>>> (home_root_t).
>>>
>>>
>> Aren'y you using the root account, are you? Where is your login
>> picture located? Have you tried runing restorecon on the image?
> 
> No, this is a normal user account in /home a seperate partition.
> 
> $ls -Z .face
> -rw-r--r--  louisg00 users system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 .face
> 
> 
Thils looks like the wrong location for this file.

In my case it would be

/home/dwalsh/.face

And it would have a context of user_home_t?
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