Bug 458143

Summary:	usermod relabeling old home dir on change
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jason Bradley Nance <jbnance>
Component:	shadow-utils	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
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Version:	5.2	CC:	dwalsh, mmalik
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Description Jason Bradley Nance 2008-08-06 17:16:20 UTC

Description of problem:
When changing a user's home directory using 'usermod', it seems to be calling 'restorecon -R' on the old home directory.  This causes issues when the old home directory doesn't exist for some reason - especially if done during a kickstart.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.0.17-13.el5

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. usermod -d / ident  (ident's home dir is set to /home/ident by default, which doesn't exist)
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Actual results:
/sbin/restorecon:  error while labeling files under /home/ident
usermod: warning: unable to relabel the homedir /home/ident for ident.

Expected results:


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Comment 1 Subhendu Ghosh 2009-10-24 20:41:36 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 494575 ***