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 at hughesjr.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 08:19 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: > > On 1/19/06, Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano at 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 :) > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBDz58sTKkMgmrBY7MRAo8hAJ92+P+gE21HCBtK/LHYF/pKCDSduQCfT2Ph > phRIRIlICbfryMY6pjRl4K8= > =plLK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060120/0388e1a6/attachment-0005.html>