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Bug 118854 - root cannot login via GDM login screen
Summary: root cannot login via GDM login screen
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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Blocks: FC2Blocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-21 17:55 UTC by G.Wolfe Woodbury
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-03-27 08:23:48 UTC
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Description G.Wolfe Woodbury 2004-03-21 17:55:58 UTC 
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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:
Comment 1 G.Wolfe Woodbury 2004-03-27 08:23:48 UTC 
policy 1.9-15 seems to have fixed the problem.
Comment 2 Miloš Komarčević 2004-04-01 10:47:47 UTC 
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.
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