On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 06:05:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:31:47 -0400 > fred smith wrote: > > > I'm stumped, anyone got any sage adivce for me? Tom: Yes, disabling selinux removes the problem. I had looked at the selinux labeling and thought it looked OK, but apparently not. So some googling turns up this page: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Security-Enhanced_Linux/sect-Security-Enhanced_Linux-Maintaining_SELinux_Labels_-Checking_the_Default_SELinux_Context.html which tells me EXACTLY how to fix it. To verify the problem: matchpathcon -V /home showed the incorrect context, and said what it should be (sorry, I didn't capture it and now it's gone--I think it was file_t, but should have been home_root_t.) then /sbin/restorecon -v /home sets it to the right value, after which rerunning the matchpathcon -V command shows it is correct. a quick reboot and ssh to the system and voila! Problem solved. Thanks, Tom, for pointing me in the right direction. Now, does anyone know if/how I can enable encryption on my disk partitions without havinig to use LVM? Thanks again, everyone! > > If selinux is enabled, it wants its mysterious labeling > on /home, and if you create /home later, it may need > fixes to make selinux happy. You could temporarily disable > selinux and see if problems go away (of course if > selinux is already disabled, I'm out of ideas :-). > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) ----------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines