On 1/19/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@hughesjr.com> wrote:

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 08:19 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 1/19/06, Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi i just installed my system then shutit down. after booting it up i can't
> > login to root so i did a linux rescue with the CD and when i tried to type
> > passwd this error message appear?
> >
> > "user_u:system_r:unconfined_t is not authorized to change the password of
> > root"
>
> This is an selinux error message. Apparently you enabled selinux
> during your install, however I've not seen it prevent people from
> logging in for ages. Are you trying to log into X as root? That it
> might stop.
>
>

When I screwed up my /etc/sysconfig/selinux once I had similar problems.

I had selinux set to SELUNIX=enforcing and a bogus SELINUXTYPE=

it was not happy, not even in the least bit :)

putting in real (and even valid) entries in /etc/sysconfig/selinux fixed
my screwup :)

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