unable to login

[rich turner]

i am attempting to login as a normal user (fedora core 4) but am
receiving the following error message:

su[1697]:Warning! Could not relabel /dev/console with
user_u:object_r:console_su:/bin/bash:Permission denied

this does not happen when i login as root or when i "setenforce 0".

anyone have any ideas?

i am attempting to login as a normal user (fc4 system) but i am
receiving the following error message:

su[1697]:Warning! Could not relabel /dev/console with
user_u:object_r:console_su:/bin/bash:Permission denied

this does not happen when i login as root or when i "setenforce 0".

i know i will not have any problems if i turn selinux off, but i also
lose the extra security.

anyone have any ideas?

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 6/24/05, rich turner  wrote:
> i am attempting to login as a normal user (fedora core 4) but am
> receiving the following error message:
>
> su[1697]:Warning! Could not relabel /dev/console with
> user_u:object_r:console_su:/bin/bash:Permission denied
>
> this does not happen when i login as root or when i "setenforce 0".
>
> anyone have any ideas?

I admit that I don't know what the issue is, but I would suggest the
following:  get root access on the machine (wether you need to disable
SELinux for that or not for a root login, I don't know), touch
/.autorelabel, and reboot.

This will ensure that every file on your system is labeled with the
correct SELinux security context.  It will be easier to move forward
from there with troubleshooting if your environment is in a known
state.

[rich turner]

i touched the file /.autorelabel, rebooted and saw a message that
"SELinux relabel is required ...". Once it finished and booted to init
level 5 i was still unable to login through the graphical login. i wish
i would have written down the error message but i did not.

at this point i rebooted the system to single user mode and switch the
default init level to 3. now after rebooting again it is hung up on
"Initializing hardware ...". This has to be a selinux issue because if i
issue selinux=0 to the kernel then i do not have any problems.

anyone have any ideas?

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 22:35 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On 6/24/05, rich turner  wrote:
> > i am attempting to login as a normal user (fedora core 4) but am
> > receiving the following error message:
> >
> > su[1697]:Warning! Could not relabel /dev/console with
> > user_u:object_r:console_su:/bin/bash:Permission denied
> >
> > this does not happen when i login as root or when i "setenforce 0".
> >
> > anyone have any ideas?
>
> I admit that I don't know what the issue is, but I would suggest the
> following:  get root access on the machine (wether you need to disable
> SELinux for that or not for a root login, I don't know), touch
> /.autorelabel, and reboot.
>
> This will ensure that every file on your system is labeled with the
> correct SELinux security context.  It will be easier to move forward
> from there with troubleshooting if your environment is in a known
> state.