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:
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.