Redhat 4, ssh, su

[North, Walter]

Linked into sellinux, huh, I was afraid of that.

The reason was for the security stuff, as I did not think
Red Hat was keeping up on them.  But if they are then I'll go back
to theirs.

And to A. Khattri -- yes, RHEL 4, I had forgotten about the old
versions back in the free Red Hat days.  Clearly I need a vacation.....

thanks! 

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
[mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org]On Behalf Of Net Llama!
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:29 PM
To: Linux tips and tricks
Subject: Re: Redhat 4, ssh, su


On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, North, Walter wrote:
>
> Hello all:
>
> I just finished installing the most recent versions of openssh & openssl
> so as to replace the old versions contained by RH4 and am now getting this
> whenever I su.

Those 'old' versions have all security updates back ported into them.  So
if your only motivation for this upgrade was fear of security issues, it
was unwarranted.

>
> su -
> password:
>
> and after entering the password --
>
> Your default context is root:system_r:unconfined_t.
>
> Do you want to choose a different one? [n]
>
>
> I dont recall ever seeing this before.
>
> I didn't see anything in the archives about this, has anyone seen this
> before, and where is it coming from and how to I fix it so it quits
> asking me this ?

That's an SELinux error.  it wouldn't surprise me if RHEL4's
openssh/openssl are somehow linked to libselinux.so or pam_selinux.so and
your new one isn't.

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