(newbie)Troubles with SE-Linux

Richard E Miles r.godzilla at comcast.net
Tue Mar 22 01:12:22 UTC 2005


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:48:37 -0600
Paul Rumin <purenrg7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to preface this with "I am not new to linux,  but new to
> SE-Linux."  I am not sure where to begin with this problem.  After a
> clean install of Fedore Core 3 (at least I thought clean),  I tried to
> login in with a user account a few days later.  This did not work,  so
> I logged in as root to change my user's password.
> 
> 1. First,  I tried changing the user's password with passwd. Although
> the program seemed to accept the new password.  I still was unable to
> login in afterwards.
> 
> 2. So I tried to manually change it within the /etc/passwd file. 
> Knowing that there was a shadow file,  I deleted the encrypted
> password in shadow and the "x" in the /etc/password file. Then, I ran
> passwd, followed by pwconv.  But still nothing.
> 
> 3. Finally,  I tried to just use "su" command into my user's account
> to no avail.
> 
> 
> Now I am stuck.  My understanding of SE is that you must match
> securities contents of the files,  by using the -Z delimiter, which I
> did verify.
> 
> If someone could steer me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
> 
> Thx,
> Paul
> 
> BTW, I did also try userdel/useradd with no success.
> 
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