Description of problem: I have two machines which complain as below when updating selinux policy as below: tk homedir /local/tk or its parent directory conflicts with a defined context in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts, /usr/sbin/genhomedircon will not create a new context. This usually indicates an incorrectly defined system account. If it is a system account please make sure its login shell is /sbin/nologin. In the above example I traced the offending line in file_contexts to be a line 495: /usr/local/(.*/)?nprhapengine\.so.* -- system_u:object_r:textrel_shlib_ This is the first line containing string "/local" in it. My guess is that line 305 in genhomedircon in function checkExists is incorrect. It reads: if re.search(home, regex, 0): while it should probably be: if re.search(regex, home, 0): (check http://docs.python.org/lib/node46.html for re.search parameters). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): policycoreutils-1.34.1-8.fc6 selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-62.fc6 How reproducible: Always by running genhomedircon Actual results: genhomedircon prints warning and seems to fail to properly update file_contexts.homedirs. Expected results: No errors/warning and file_contexts.homedirs correctly updated. Additional info: Patch attached.
Created attachment 153987 [details] patch
Actually this is reversed patch. I also fix a typo in summary.
THis is complaining because you have a user in your /etc/passwd with a homedir of /local/tk. Is this a real user? If not it should have a login shell of /bin/false. And then genhomedircon will not complain.
Yes, this is real user. On the other machine I have lots of real users in /user and have the same problem. I also mentioned a line which is matched in my bug report and this is really something I wouldn't expect.
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