FC2T2 - can't login as normal user - home directory does not exist message (wrong)

[Edoardo Comar]

After an install with SELinux enabled
logged into kde as root, and added a couple of normal user with the add 
user graphical tool, specifying UID manually and creating their unique 
group names as the user as well.

I had their userdirs created and I could also get into them by executing
su - myuser
(answering  no to the security context question)

but if I try to login from the kdm prompt
the login fails and the error message is that the /home/myuser directory 
does not exist
I can only log in a failsafe session using / as temp home

Edoardo

[Santiago Erquicia]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:14, Edoardo Comar wrote:
>  After an install with SELinux enabled
>  logged into kde as root, and added a couple of normal user with the add 
>  user graphical tool, specifying UID manually and creating their unique 
>  group names as the user as well.
>  
>  I had their userdirs created and I could also get into them by executing
>  su - myuser
>  (answering  no to the security context question)
>  
>  but if I try to login from the kdm prompt
>  the login fails and the error message is that the /home/myuser directory 
>  does not exist
>  I can only log in a failsafe session using / as temp home
>  
>  Edoardo
>   
I have the same problem.  I also have some errors due to selinux.

At the selinux mailing list they recommended me:
"
have you tried setfiles /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts /home
"

I haven't yet, but you should ;-)

[J. Scott Farrow]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 08:27, Santiago Erquicia wrote:

>  I have the same problem.  I also have some errors due to selinux.
>  
>  At the selinux mailing list they recommended me:
>  "
>  have you tried setfiles /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts /home
>  "
>  
>  I haven't yet, but you should ;-)
>   
I had a similar problem due to my doing a clean install, but preserving
my /home filesystem.  I made a new user to match the old one, tried to
log in, and gdm promptly tells me that my home directory did not exist. 
A simple ls told me that it did, and I had to poke around at this for a
while before recalling the whole security context issue.  A quick check
of /var/log/messages revealed the issue - no security contexts set on
the /home filesystem.

I ran the suggested 'fixfiles relabel' from the release notes, and this
fixed the problem.  It did, however, require a reboot as X11 no longer
started due to some other context issue.  Smooth sailing after the
reboot.

- J. Scott Farrow

[Edoardo Comar]

thanks for the answers
I solved my login problem by setting
in /etc/sysconfig/selinux
SELINUX=permissive

(and rebooting ;-)

Edoardo