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Bug 119406 - GDMsetup asks root passwd, then doesn't launch
Summary: GDMsetup asks root passwd, then doesn't launch
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 117499
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-30 06:34 UTC by Benjamin Thompson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:02:14 UTC
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Description Benjamin Thompson 2004-03-30 06:34:28 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312

Description of problem:
I have tried launching "Login Screen," or gdmsetup, from the menus via
GNOME as well as KDE and through Konsole. The prompt for the root
password appears every time, I put the password in every time, and the
prompt disappears and the app never launches--every time.

When I try launching via konsole, the following is shown in the
konsole after inputting the root password in the aforementioned query
window:
Could not set exec context to user_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot FC2/t2 into KDE or GNOME with non-root user.
2. Launch gdmsetup through {main menu->system settings->login screen}
or via an xterm
3. Provide root password, hit OK.
    

Actual Results:  gdmsetup simply will not launch. If launched from
konsole, the error: "Could not set exec context to
user_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t." is produced.

Expected Results:  gdmsetup ought to have launched normally. There
were no strange settings in my install that should have produced this.
Comment 1 Eugenia Loli-Queru 2004-03-30 07:26:51 UTC 
I concur. This happens here too. I can't load "Services" or "User and 
Groups" or *anything else* that requires authentication. It gives me 
the same stuff Ben said:
Could not set exec context to user_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t.

When logged in as "root" it works fine, but when logged in 
as "eugenia" it just bails out.

Please note that this is an "Everything" installation, I installed 
all packages. I thought I will say this here just in case it has 
something to do with the problem (however my gut feeling says that it 
has something to do with SELinux).
Comment 2 Eugenia Loli-Queru 2004-03-30 07:54:05 UTC 
Please note that this is *not* a GDMSetup bug, it happens on ALL pref 
panels that require authentication. See bug #117499 too.
Comment 3 schiebe 2004-03-30 13:07:05 UTC 
The same here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119414
I think thats a problem with SELinux?!
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2004-03-30 16:42:24 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117499 ***
Comment 5 Walter Buehler 2004-08-12 08:15:17 UTC 
I had this problem on a linux-ppc. I changed the su and gdmsetup 
files in /etc/pam.d/ and it worked at least for su. I'm still 
muddling with the gdmsetup entries there, but I suppose the problem 
is pam, not selinux.
Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:02:14 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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