Hi,
There was....but I a newbie thought it was for checkin my HDD which I was
sure was in perfect condition.
DVD Media should be all right as you were able to install.
Right....
1.Your home directory is listed as /home/easwarh but it doesn't seem to
exist.Do you want to login with the root directory as your home directory?It's unlikely anything will work unless you do so. Options:Yes No.....I selected Yes and proceeded.....
This means for some reason mandrake is failing to mount /home partition during boot process. Main reasons could be
- May be some bug in distro.
- Just guess: Your SELINUX is enabled. Some policy failure during boot
process is causing disabled access to /home partition. Let us know if you use home partition from outside of mandrake, eg. from windows OR other linux install. Also you can switch of SELINUX if not needed.
Nope...I am not accessing Linux partitions from Windows and there's no other Linux on my system.How do I switch off SELinux and what's the criteria for judging whether I need it or not?
2.$HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored.Your home directory /home/easwarh
either doesn't exist or you are not the owner.Home directory should have 644 permissions and not be writable by other users.
If home is not mounted nothing on home will be visible. Try googling .dmrc selinux.
Will do that.....
If same problem occurs in future please do following.
- Go to command line login as root.
Check log file /var/log/dmsg, /var/log/messages OR /var/log/syslog for any failure during boot. 2. Don't panic use following commands sh# mount #you should see all mounted partitions, see if /home is mounted, if not give next command sh#mount -a #it should mount your home partition, verify using mount 3. If everything goes fine goto gui login prompt and try login. 4. Let us know if it worked. 5. You can bzip and mail me offlist your log files /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog. System logs might be having useful info about previous incidents. Search logs by date and time when last incident occurred.
Ok......but last time,ie third time I deleted Mandriva partitions and reinstalled,so system logs not available.......the system log might be available for this time ie the time for which I have posted these messages where the reboot did the job.....
Regards, Easwar
Hi,
How do I switch off SELinux and what's the criteria for judging whether I need it or not?
SELinux is for highly critical security needs. Most people don't need it on desktop machines. But it is good thing to learn. http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELinux
If I remember correctly MS was against SE(Security-Enhanced) being added to linux.
Regards Balwinder Singh
How do I switch off SELinux
go to /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=disabled
on your next reboot it'll be off.
and what's the
criteria for judging whether I need it or not?
at the bare minimum :
7% performance overhead(plus training incompetent adimins if you have any)
v/s
Better access control
SELinux is for highly critical security needs. Most people don't need it on desktop machines. But it is good thing to learn. http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELinux
Positively Brilliant answer :P
Only a little more clarity would have helped.
If I remember correctly MS was against SE(Security-Enhanced) being added to linux.
and where did you get this from? Please do share it with the rest of us.
Regards,
- vihan
On 6/5/07, Vihan Pandey wrote:
If I remember correctly MS was against SE(Security-Enhanced) being added to linux.
and where did you get this from? Please do share it with the rest of us.
Regards,
- vihan
A google search gives this link: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-950083.html
Scroll down to the section "Microsoft vs. the NSA"
Its the usual nonsense. Companies complaining "that providing the fruits of research to everyone, not just U.S. companies, is hurting American business". Accusations that "open-source software may offer target for terrorists". Microsoft as usual has not commented directly on this issue. They just play their dirty politics. Unfortunately, the consequence of this issue is that SE Linux may be the NSA's last direct contribution to open-source security.
A google search gives this link: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-950083.html
Its the usual nonsense. Companies complaining "that providing the fruits of research to everyone, not just U.S. companies, is hurting American business". Accusations that "open-source software may offer target for terrorists". Microsoft as usual has not commented directly on this issue. They just play their dirty politics. Unfortunately, the consequence of this issue is that SE Linux may be the NSA's last direct contribution to open-source security.
Interesting. The funny thing is that when IBM decided to release some of the DES source code way back the NSA was pretty annoyed as well. No one expected them to do a turn around and come up with SELinux but they did :-)
Oh yeah and the "open-source software may offer target for terrorists" is stated by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution which is well renowned for biased statements. In fact they had accused Linus of plagarism which was complete crap and promptly disproven. It was established then the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution was being funded my M$. Moreover the statement ``while the software giant does fund the institution, it doesn't fund any specific research" is pretty dubious :-)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution
Regards,
- vihan
On 6/5/07, Vihan Pandey vihanpandey@gmail.com wrote:
How do I switch off SELinux
go to /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=disabled
on your next reboot it'll be off.
and what's the
criteria for judging whether I need it or not?
at the bare minimum :
7% performance overhead(plus training incompetent adimins if you have any)
v/s
Better access control
SELinux is for highly critical security needs. Most people don't need it on desktop machines. But it is good thing to learn. http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELinux
Positively Brilliant answer :P
Only a little more clarity would have helped.
Thanks to Mrugesh: http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20051205/049017.htm...
Regards, Mohan S N
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