Hi,

I am running Fedore 8 (x86_64) on Intel Core 2 Duo machine. I have openssh-server.x86_64 version 4.7p1-2.fc8 installed.

When I attempt to start the SSH server as root by using the command '/etc/init.d/sshd start', I get the following message:
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Starting sshd: /etc/init.d/sshd: line 113: /usr/sbin/sshd: Permission denied
[FAILED]
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The line 113 in /etc/init.d/sshd contains: '$SSHD $OPTIONS && success || failure'

I am not being able to find out the problem. Any suggestion?


Thanks and regards,
Suman Chakrabarty.

assuming that you ARE root, then the only general angle i'd have is selinux. anythign from it in dmesg?

Yes, the problem was with selinux! "setenforce 0" solves the problem. I have not checked the dmesg yet.

that is *NOT* a solution, that's a dangerous workaround...

Certainly. But the machine is in an internal network and for my personal use. That is why I took the workaround.

While it is working now, can I ask you what would be the right way to really 'solve' the problem? Thanks.

well dmesg should show you the selinux violation. more often than not it's a case of using tools like chcon to correct selinux context errors rather than changing the underlying policy for selinux, although the latter is still a route to explore if need be.