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"
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On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 21:08 +0800, Mark Quitoriano 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 looks like an SELINUX issue ... add selinux=0 as a switch to linux rescue like this:
linux rescue selinux=0
(you where in a chroot after booting the rescue disk to change the passwd, right?)
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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.
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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 :)
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.
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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