su authentification

[Rick Stevens]

On 09/17/2015 11:32 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/17/2015 11:08 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
>> The problem is worse. This setup locks out as user  to do any su or
>> sudo or shutdown manually. No reboot, nor shutdown command because the
>> user even if has added to the sudoers list - it has been locked out me
>> either. Any shutdown command fails and forcing the computer to
>> hibernate. PS: I have Mate version.
>>
>> Just discovered this issue.
>
> Try this from a terminal:
>
> ls -l -Z /usr/sbin/poweroff
>
> For me, that returns this:
>
> [joe at barrayar ~]$ ls -l -Z /usr/sbin/poweroff
> lrwxrwxrwx. root root system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 /usr/sbin/poweroff ->
> ../bin/systemctl
>
> It's possible that either the permissions or the SELinux context is wrong.

Also check the SELinux and permissions of /bin/systemctl:

[root at prophead ~]# ls -l -Z /bin/systemctl
-rwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:systemd_systemctl_exec_t:s0 
/bin/systemctl

Check your logs for SELinux avc errors.
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