Re: fc3 - password change problem - syslog and portmapper

Jayendren Anand Maduray wrote: >Hi! > >having problems with selinux for sylog and portmapper. Also cannot change >password with selinux enable. >it is running in targeted mode. >I have been checking with nsa-selinux forum, and some of the ppl recommend >that i ask this forum. You need to relabel you file system. I would update to the latest policy and relabel your file system yum upgrade selinux-policy-targeted touch /.autorelabel reboot >from nsa-linux: > >On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 08:09 +0200, Jayendren Anand Maduray wrote: >>Got FC3 running SELINUX in enforcing mode. >> >>1. however when i try to change my password, i get the ffg error: >>SystemError: couldn't get security context of `/etc/passwd': No data > >available > >>2. also, when i boot up, syslogd, and portmap cannot start, so i disabled >> it in SELinux. i would like to get this to work, though. >> >>i am running kernel Linux shiva 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp > >The most likely scenario is that you never labeled your filesystems, or >that you ran with SELinux disabled for some period of time and thus >ended up with some files without security labels. Touch /.autorelabel >and reboot, or run /sbin/fixfiles relabel and reboot. BTW, this kind of >question belongs on fedora-selinux-list, not here, IMHO.