hmmm... this is weird because i installed the same way i installed my
other servers i always enabled selinux. But this is the first time i
encountered this.<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Johnny Hughes</b> <<a href="mailto:mailing-lists@hughesjr.com">mailing-lists@hughesjr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 08:19 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:<br>> On 1/19/06, Mark Quitoriano <<a href="mailto:markquitoriano@gmail.com">markquitoriano@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > hi i just installed my system then shutit down. after booting it up i can't
<br>> > login to root so i did a linux rescue with the CD and when i tried to type<br>> > passwd this error message appear?<br>> ><br>> > "user_u:system_r:unconfined_t is not authorized to change the password of
<br>> > root"<br>><br>> This is an selinux error message. Apparently you enabled selinux<br>> during your install, however I've not seen it prevent people from<br>> logging in for ages. Are you trying to log into X as root? That it
<br>> might stop.<br>><br>><br><br>When I screwed up my /etc/sysconfig/selinux once I had similar problems.<br><br>I had selinux set to SELUNIX=enforcing and a bogus SELINUXTYPE=<br><br>it was not happy, not even in the least bit :)
<br><br>putting in real (and even valid) entries in /etc/sysconfig/selinux fixed<br>my screwup :)<br><br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)<br><br>iD8DBQBDz58sTKkMgmrBY7MRAo8hAJ92+P+gE21HCBtK/LHYF/pKCDSduQCfT2Ph
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