Telnet and RHEL4

[David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A.]

--On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 2:17 PM -0800 Michael Scully <agentscully at flexiblestrategies.com> wrote:

> Greetings:
>
> 	I recently installed Enterprise 4 (ES) with Update 2 on a clean
> system.  The user has older terminal emulators that only support telnet (not
> SSH).  But this behavior is new:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
> Kernel 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp on an i686
> login: scully
> Password:
> Your default context is user_u:system_r:unconfined_t.
>
> Do you want to choose a different one? [n]
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 	If I answer no, the rest of the .bash_profile runs fine.  I'm not
> sure what is configured to create this prompt.  Has anyone else seen it?


This looks like something that Security-Enhanced Linux would generate.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to delve into THAT yet.

Is your SE Linux configured to OFF/WARN or ENFORCE?  Like so:

[root at greyhound ~]# less /etc/sysconfig/selinux
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
#       enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
#       permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
#       disabled - SELinux is fully disabled.
SELINUX=enforcing
# SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are:
#       targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected.
#       strict - Full SELinux protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted



Maybe someone else knows more?