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Bug 118854
| Summary: | root cannot login via GDM login screen | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe> |
| Component: | gdm | Assignee: | Havoc Pennington <hp> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-03-27 08:23:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 114961 | ||
policy 1.9-15 seems to have fixed the problem. I did not have this problem with a fresh test 2 install, but after updating to kernel-2.6.4-1.300 and policy-1.9.1-4 and relabeling (does one have to do this after upgrading the policy package?) I cannot login as root via gdm any more: "/root" does not exist. If I log in on a VC the default context is root:sysadm_r:sysadm_t, while if I switch to permissive mode and log in through gdm and open a terminal the context is root:staff_r:staff_t. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: attempts to login via GDM with user root fail due to security mis-configureation Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install from development tree 2. perform firstboot 3. attempt to login as root Actual Results: multiple errors relating to security inability to access/change various files Expected Results: normal login Additional info: