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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos