Something weird... some passwords gone

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Aug 26 15:15:58 UTC 2013


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On 08/26/2013 10:14 AM, linuxnutster at videotron.ca wrote:
> I've suddenly had to retype a bunch of passwords, including banking
> passwords, in firefox and thunderbird. I had selinux disabled on my PC and
> notebook and reactivated it. The strange thing is that thunderbird did not
> lose all of my email passwords, only one. The same on my PC. I am being
> requested to re-enter passwords for my ISP login and banking, but not
> supplier websites. None of this happened on my notebook, only on my PC.
> 
> Would this weirdness be selinux reactivation related, update related, or 
> something more nefarious? I don't have enough experience with Linux
> security to understand what may have happened. Any input would be
> appreciated...
When you say you reactivated SELinux, what do you mean?  setenforce 0
setenforce 1?  Or did you change the values in /etc/selinux/config?
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