F12 beta, ldap authentication and NFS mounted home

[Tim Fenn]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:28:04 -0400 Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 10/22/2009 02:16 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> > On 10/22/2009 02:04 AM, Tim Fenn wrote:
> >> I upgraded a machine from F10 to F12 beta - its a client machine
> >> that mounts /home over NFS and authenticates over LDAP (however,
> >> its a mac server that sets /home as /Volumes/Homes, which I have
> >> set up as a pointer to /home). use_nfs_home_dirs is on and I can
> >> log in via SSH or the console, but the graphical login fails when
> >> clicking "log in" with the following selinux error:
> >>
> >> SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/ck-get-x11-server-pid "read"
> >> access on Homes.
> >>
> >> I've attached the full sealart, am I missing something
> >> obvious/simple?
> >>
> > 
> > FWIW, I had something similar with gdm-greeter, I think. I also had
> > a different problem[1] with gdm so I didn't give it much attention
> > at the time.
> > 
> > -- Jeroen
> > 
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530041
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> I need to see the AVC in /var/log/audit/audit.log to make sure I know
> the reason.
> 
> Make sure the use_nfs_home_dirs boolean is turned on.
> 

Yes, it is.  Upon further investigation, it appears gdm is just
crashing - I'll look into related bug reports.  The selinux alert may
be for something else, I'll post the audit.log next time I catch it.

-Tim

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