First selinux problem, help!

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Nov 8 21:48:34 UTC 2006


Mark Haney wrote:
> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>>
>>
>> If you log in directly as root, you should get the correct context, 
>> if you log in as a normal user and then execute su or sudo you will not.
>>
> I had no clue about that.  I assumed  (and wrongly obviously) that 
> root, no matter how you got there would get the correct context.  Will 
> su - or sudo su - give you the correct context?
No.  Sorry.  BTW this is fixed in FC6 and RHEL5. 
>
>> semanage login -l
>>
>> Will list your login records
>>
>> semanage login -m
>>
>> will modify
>>
>> semanage login -a
>>
>> will add
>>
>> If you do not have a login record for a particular user, they will 
>> default to __default__
>>
> Thanks for all the info.  I'll be keeping this for reference.
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