From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4266A2F4.6040302@hp.com> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:44:04 -0400 From: Paul Moore MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jrdesai18-tech@yahoo.com Cc: Stephen Smalley , James Morris , SELinux , Daniel J Walsh Subject: Re: selinux-policy-mls is now available for your testing pleasure. References: <20050420181222.60238.qmail@web50201.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050420181222.60238.qmail@web50201.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov jrdesai18-tech@yahoo.com wrote: > --- Paul Moore wrote: > >>Paul Moore wrote: >> >>>Stephen Smalley wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 18:29 -0400, James Morris wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>>12 Rebooted normally, i.e. 'rhgb quiet 5', and X failed to start >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Haven't tried X yet, not sure it's supposed to work. >>>> >>>> >>>>Works for me. Of course, you do need to have the allow_execmem=1 >>>>boolean enabled for X to run, but that is independent of >>>>MLS. /usr/sbin/setsebool -P allow_execmem=1. Did the RPM include >> >>a >> >>>>booleans file? >>>> >>> >>>Yes it did, however, the allow_execmem entry was missing. I added >> >>it >> >>>via setsebool and verified that it was in the booleans.local file >> >>and >> >>>rebooted to see gdm startup this time but I could not login - >> >>according >> >>>to the xsession-errors file Xlib failed to connect to the display, >> >>which >> >>>was running on ":0.0". >>> >> >>I was playing with this some more and a regular user was allowed to >>login via gdm - just not root. >> > > > Hi Paul, > > I saw a similar problem. In my case /tmp/gconfd-root had a type > other than tmp_t (I think it was sysadm_tmp or something like > that). It is possible that it was there from a previous login > of root when MLS was not active. Try removing that directory > and see if you can login as root. > > -Janak Hi Janak, Thanks for the suggestion. I made sure to clear out '/tmp' when I first ran into problems booting and I just checked it again - not gconf entries for root. -- . paul moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . paul.moore@hp.com hewlett packard . (603) 884-5056 linux security -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.