login with kdm and home directories on nfs4

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Jan 6 13:49:24 UTC 2009


Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> I don't know if this is kde specificm but I try if here.
> 
> My home directorys are stored on a NFS4 server and can are mounted by 
> netfs script. the sub directories are accessable by the corresponding 
> user and everything is fine - most of the time.
> 
> After a reboot the first login fails with the error message "can not 
> change to home directory. Using / instead" and i get lots of messages 
> from selinux in /var/log/messages:
> 
> "setroubleshoot: SELinux hindert kdm (xdm_t) "mount" am Zugriff auf 
> nfs_t. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 
> 82ea4c8a-4442-492f-8e11-f831b24821b4"
> 
> which says something like SELinux prevents kdm (xdm_t) "mount" to 
> access nfs_t. The sealert result is not very informative for me.
> 
> Yesterday I switched from NFSv3 to NFSv4. There were no such Problems 
> with NFSv3.
> 
> If this is not the right list, dan you please guide me to the right 
> one?

This is almost certainly not a kde-specific issue, I'd suggest starting 
with filing a bug against selinux-policy-targetted or ask on the selinux 
mailing list:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list

-- Rex

-- Rex



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