[Bulk] Re: selinux and /etc/passwd

[Sergiu Giurgiu]

right now it doesn't show anything. I have disabled selinux on the 
system, probably thats why.
should i look for something in /var/log/messages ?

Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 00:23, Sergiu Giurgiu wrote:
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>>hi,
>>I've just installed FC3 tonight (clean install) and ... I've came across 
>>a small problem.
>>Users cannot be created. I hev created a user at the first-boot wizard, 
>>I have tried to use the graphical tool, and ... at the console I tried 
>>to use useradd. The wizard didn't say anything (like everything was ok), 
>>the user/group manager graphical tool remain blocked when I pressed OK 
>>to add a new user, but useradd said that it cannot alter /etc/passwd  (I 
>>don't recall the exact message). As a result, I couldn't add a new user.
>>To start eventually working, I have disabled selinux and rebooted. 
>>everthing works fine now.
>>Given that I'm not quite knowledgeable about selinux (why is it there 
>>and what is it doing), and this machine functions as a 
>>workstation/desktop machine, I can say that I'm ok with this solution. 
>>However I would like to know what was happening. Is it a bug (didn't 
>>found reports about this)? It's a feature? Can it be fixed? If so, how?
>>The filesystem installed is reiserfs (does it matter?).
>>Thank you.
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>What does 'audit2allow -v -i /var/log/messages' show?  reiserfs doesn't
>yet support individual file labeling for SELinux, so all files in it are
>mapped to a single security type, but I would have expected you to be
>able to access it under the targeted policy just fine.
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