I have installed CentOS and Redhat5 on a LVM partition and selinux is enabled. Both OS's share the same /home partition with one user with the same login(gc) and same uid (1000). The problem I am having is that gc can login with all permissions etc on the OS that was installed first (CentOS). For the redhat OS gc can login but cannot write to the home directory (or startx since X needs to write to Xauthority)


Here are outputs - 1st CentOS

[gc@shuttle ~]$ ll -Zd $HOME
drwx------ gc gc system_ubject_r:unlabeled_t /home/gc
[gc@shuttle ~]$ stat $HOME
File: `/home/gc'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fd03h/64771d Inode: 300145 Links: 37
Access: (0700/drwx------) Uid: ( 1000/ gc) Gid: ( 1000/ gc)
Access: 2010-10-18 12:50:32.000000000 +1300
Modify: 2010-10-18 12:41:01.000000000 +1300
Change: 2010-10-18 12:41:01.000000000 +1300


and now with redhat5 :-

[gc@shuttle ~]$ ll -Zd $HOME
drwx------ gc gc system_ubject_r:unlabeled_t /home/gc
[gc@shuttle ~]$ stat $HOME
File: `/home/gc'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fd03h/64771d Inode: 300145 Links: 37
Access: (0700/drwx------) Uid: ( 1000/ gc) Gid: ( 1000/ gc)
Access: 2010-10-18 13:01:03.000000000 +1300
Modify: 2010-10-18 12:57:33.000000000 +1300
Change: 2010-10-18 12:57:33.000000000 +1300

both seem to be exactly the same
but under redhat
if i try :-
[gc@shuttle ~]$ touch : > newfile
-bash: newfile: Permission denied

no problem with CentoS

any ideas

thanks

GC

/home has context home_root_t and /home/${LOGNAME} has context user_home_dir_t. If 'chcon home_root_t /home; chcon -R user_home_dir_t/home/${LOGNAME}' works then check your /var/log/audit/audit.log for additional problems and think about relabeling.