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[Vadym Chepkov]

On Jul 19, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

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> On 07/16/2010 12:56 PM, Vadym Chepkov wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> Whenever I try to modify a policy I get a warning like this:
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>> /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.
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>> 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?
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> Which OS is causing this?
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> In F12 and F13 you can add
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> usepasswd=FALSE
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> to /etc/selinux/semanage.conf
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> Which will tell genhomedircon to stop looking in /etc/passwd for homedirs.


It's RHEL5, so, no such option in semanage.conf

I have 2 userid defined this way:

app:x:610:610:App subsystem:/var/lib/application:/bin/bash
appftp:x:611:611:App ftp subsystem:/var/lib/application/ftproot:/bin/bash


SELinux is only unhappy about the first one.

I will try to change id, but it's strange it only affect one out of two

Thanks,
Vadym