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[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 07/16/2010 12:56 PM, Vadym Chepkov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Whenever I try to modify a policy I get a warning like this:
> 
> /usr/sbin/genhomedircon will not create a new context. This usually indicates an incorrectly defined system account.  If it is a system account please make sure its login shell is /sbin/nologin.
> 
> And this is true, I did create a system account with home in /var/lib/application
> But, I need this account to have a real shell. How can I make SELinux happy?
> 
> Thank you,
> Vadym Chepkov
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Can you set the UID < 500?

Which OS is causing this?

In F12 and F13 you can add


usepasswd=FALSE

to /etc/selinux/semanage.conf

Which will tell genhomedircon to stop looking in /etc/passwd for homedirs.
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