login with kdm and home directories on nfs4

[Martin (KDE)]

Oron Peled schrieb:
> On Tuesday, 6 בJanuary 2009, Martin (KDE) wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>> ...
>>>> which says something like SELinux prevents kdm (xdm_t) "mount" to
>>>> access nfs_t. The sealert result is not very informative for me.
> 
> Just another data point -- I use nfs4 + KDM on a small SOHO network
> and don't have these issues. Three users (including me) use KDE desktop
> and one of my kids uses GNOME.

Are you running SELinux in permisive mode? I think this was the default 
up to fedora 8. Yesterday I added a SELinux policy to allow kdm mounting 
nfs volumes (afaik nfs4 mounts the master volume at startup and the 
underlaying volumes as they are needed - and that seems to be the 
problem). But I had no time to check this in deep.

> 
> I migrated from nfs3 to nfs4 back in F7 or F8 (forgot which)
> and keep using it until now (F10 updated daily).
> [Is your install up to date?]

Yes, my fedora is up to date. usually it updates automatically, checked 
every now and then by the system administrator (me).

> 
> I've alternated between gdm and kdm through the years. My current choice is
> kdm at least until gdm will be configurable again ;-(

I prefere KDM (I know it much better to configure than GDM). And all my 
users (a small SOHO net too) are using KDE so far (besides using windows 
for gamimg).

> 
> My biggest gripe with kdm is that due to the way KDE handles i18n (through
> system-settings and not environment variables), kdm does not have a language
> selection box in it's login widget and is therefore a non-starter for GNOME
> desktop users with i18n needs.
> 

I don't use Gnome. So I don't know anything about changing language 
settings within Gnome.

Martin