The following was filed automatically by setroubleshoot: Summary: SELinux is preventing vim (sandbox_t) "write" to /home/tliu/v57883 (user_home_dir_t). Detailed Description: SELinux denied access requested by vim. /home/tliu/v57883 may be a mislabeled. /home/tliu/v57883 default SELinux type is user_home_t, but its current type is user_home_dir_t. Changing this file back to the default type, may fix your problem. File contexts can be assigned to a file in the following ways. * Files created in a directory receive the file context of the parent directory by default. * The SELinux policy might override the default label inherited from the parent directory by specifying a process running in context A which creates a file in a directory labeled B will instead create the file with label C. An example of this would be the dhcp client running with the dhclient_t type and creates a file in the directory /etc. This file would normally receive the etc_t type due to parental inheritance but instead the file is labeled with the net_conf_t type because the SELinux policy specifies this. * Users can change the file context on a file using tools such as chcon, or restorecon. This file could have been mislabeled either by user error, or if an normally confined application was run under the wrong domain. However, this might also indicate a bug in SELinux because the file should not have been labeled with this type. If you believe this is a bug, please file a bug report (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package. Allowing Access: You can restore the default system context to this file by executing the restorecon command. restorecon '/home/tliu/v57883', if this file is a directory, you can recursively restore using restorecon -R '/home/tliu/v57883'. Fix Command: restorecon '/home/tliu/v57883' Additional Information: Source Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:sandbox_t:s0:c22,c676 Target Context unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 Target Objects /home/tliu/v57883 [ dir ] Source vim Source Path /usr/bin/vim Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages vim-enhanced-7.2.148-1.fc11 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.6.12-45.fc11 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name restorecon Host Name (removed) Platform Linux Ares 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:14:37 EDT 2009 i686 i686 Alert Count 1 First Seen Wed 03 Jun 2009 02:27:55 PM EDT Last Seen Wed 03 Jun 2009 02:27:55 PM EDT Local ID ee25bdd9-00aa-42b3-88ef-93018a1fa5a0 Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages node=Ares type=AVC msg=audit(1244053675.549:249): avc: denied { write } for pid=4208 comm="vim" name="tliu" dev=dm-1 ino=201 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:sandbox_t:s0:c22,c676 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 tclass=dir node=Ares type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1244053675.549:249): arch=40000003 syscall=39 success=no exit=-13 a0=bfaad17c a1=1c0 a2=bfaad17c a3=0 items=1 ppid=4207 pid=4208 auid=500 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=pts2 ses=1 comm="vim" exe="/usr/bin/vim" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:sandbox_t:s0:c22,c676 key=(null) node=Ares type=CWD msg=audit(1244053675.549:249): cwd="/" node=Ares type=PATH msg=audit(1244053675.549:249): item=0 name="/home/tliu/v57883" inode=201 dev=fd:01 mode=040700 ouid=500 ogid=500 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 audit2allow suggests: #============= sandbox_t ============== allow sandbox_t user_home_dir_t:dir write;