slim (simple login manager)

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Aug 30 19:06:07 UTC 2011


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On 08/30/2011 01:58 PM, cromworshipper-fedorastuff at yahoo.com wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <4E5A413B.9090201 at robertoragusa.it>
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 03:23:07PM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>> On 08/28/2011 03:21 AM, cromworshipper-fedorastuff at yahoo.com
>> wrote:
>>> slim started up fine when this machine was running Fedora 14.
>>> I installed it from for Fedora 15:
>>> 
>>> slim-1.3.2-8.fc15.x86_64
>>> 
>>> It doesn't start any more.  I get this in /var/log/slim.log:
>>> 
>>> slim: unexpected signal 15 sh: /usr/bin/xauth: Permission
>>> denied
>>> 
>> 
>> Check the permission of /usr/bin/xauth. They will be probably ok,
>> so next move will be blaming selinux.
>> 
>> -- Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it
> 
> 
> Thank you for taking an interest.
> 
> I don't know what could be wrong with /usr/bin/xauth since KDM
> works fine.  I see nothing in /var/log/messages from SElinux
> (except something related to wine).
> 
> What permissions should I be looking for?
> 
> $ ls -l --lcontext /usr/bin/xauth -rwxr-xr-x. 1
> system_u:object_r:xauth_exec_t:s0 root root 36840 Feb  8  2011
> /usr/bin/xauth
> 
> 
> $ ls -l --lcontext /usr/bin/slim-dynwm -rwxr-xr-x. 1
> system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0       root root 120 Jul 25 12:07
> /usr/bin/slim-dynwm
> 
> 
> $ ls -l --lcontext /usr/bin/slim -rwxr-xr-x. 1
> system_u:object_r:xdm_exec_t:s0  root root 168712 Jul 25 12:10
> /usr/bin/slim
> 
> 
> 
> John

ps -eZ | grep slim
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