----- Original Message -----
From: "James R. Marcus" <jmarcus(a)mvalent.net>
To: "Stephen Smalley" <sds(a)epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: <selinux(a)tycho.nsa.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 2:14 PM
Subject: RE: Users writting to home directory
> Okay I tried just creating a user under home. While in permissive
> mode they can login to the ftp server and upload and download.
> However when I turn on enforced mode they get this message:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\jmarcus\Desktop>ftp ftp Connected to
> ftp.mvalent.local.
> 220 Welcome to mValent, Inc. FTP service.
> User (ftp.mvalent.local:(none)): jmarcus7
> 331 Please specify the password.
> Password:
> 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/jmarcus7 500 OOPS: child
> died Connection closed by remote host.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\jmarcus\Desktop>
>
> ftp policy # seuseradd -g users -d /home/jmarcus7 -m -s /bin/bash
> -c "James R. Marcus" jmarcus7 loading new policy...
>
> Error relabeling users home directory files: User is not defined in
> the policy.
>
In case anyone sees a similar problem, this bug was fixed in setools 1.4.x.
To upgrade use the commands:
Fedora - 'yum update setools'
Gentoo - 'emerge setools'
Don Patterson
Tresys Technology
www.tresys.com