[CentOS] SELinux

[Craig White]

OK - I'm a moron, account had /bin/false for a shell - duh

and it turned out that thought I had things like xorg-xfs xorg-libs
xorg-xauth installed, I didn't have xorg-x11 installed - duh deux

minimal install was a pretty minimal install ;-)

Craig

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:56 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> I'm probably dense - CentOS 4.1
> 
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux
> ..snip...
> SELINUXTYPE=targeted
> 
> # su - Alec
> # tail -n 3 /var/log/messages
> Aug 31 08:48:26 srv1 su(pam_unix)[31435]: session opened for user Alec
> by root(uid=0)
> Aug 31 08:48:26 srv1 su[31435]: Warning!  Could not relabel /dev/pts/0
> with user_u:object_r:devpts_t, not relabeling.Operation not permitted
> Aug 31 08:48:27 srv1 su(pam_unix)[31435]: session closed for user Alec
> 
> restorecon -v /dev/pts/0
> or
> restorecon -R /dev/pts
> 
> don't help
> 
> My interest is actually trying to remotely run a vnc session to a
> different computer. 
> 
> I connect to it via ssh
> # ssh -XC -p XXXX root at fqdn
> 
> and then run vncviewer
> # vncviewer 192.168.1.253:0
> 
> VNC viewer for X version 4.0 - built Feb 21 2005 15:39:30
> Copyright (C) 2002-2004 RealVNC Ltd.
> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
> vncviewer: unable to open display ""
> 
> so I was thinking I would try to set up vncserver as the user on that
> machine but unable to su to a shell for that user means I can't run
> vncpassword for that user.
> 
> ;-(
> 
> Anyone want to toss me a bone on any of these issues (I have been
> reading SELinux notes at Fedora 3
> 
> Craig
> 
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