On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Sergiu Giurgiu wrote: > hi, > I've just installed FC3 tonight (clean install) and ... I've came across a > small problem. > Users cannot be created. I hev created a user at the first-boot wizard, I have > tried to use the graphical tool, and ... at the console I tried to use > useradd. The wizard didn't say anything (like everything was ok), the > user/group manager graphical tool remain blocked when I pressed OK to add a > new user, but useradd said that it cannot alter /etc/passwd (I don't recall > the exact message). As a result, I couldn't add a new user. > To start eventually working, I have disabled selinux and rebooted. everthing > works fine now. > Given that I'm not quite knowledgeable about selinux (why is it there and what > is it doing), and this machine functions as a workstation/desktop machine, I > can say that I'm ok with this solution. However I would like to know what was > happening. Is it a bug (didn't found reports about this)? It's a feature? Can > it be fixed? If so, how? > The filesystem installed is reiserfs (does it matter?). > Thank you. >From what I understand 'selinux' doesn't work with 'reiserfs' - as it doesn't support some extended attributes required for selinux Satish
