No such file or directory: '/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'

No such file or directory: '/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'

[Denis BUCHER]

Dear all,

I got the following error while I just wanted to change the homedir of a 
user. I hope it's the right place to ask ? (Nothing found on the web)

# usermod -d <path> <user>

/usr/sbin/genhomedircon: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'
usermod: warning: unable to relabel the homedir (...)

But homedir was changed anyway...

Just to let you know... (?)

Denis

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Re: No such file or directory: '/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'

[Stephen Smalley]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 17:14 +0100, Denis BUCHER wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I got the following error while I just wanted to change the homedir of a 
> user. I hope it's the right place to ask ? (Nothing found on the web)
> 
> # usermod -d <path> <user>
> 
> /usr/sbin/genhomedircon: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
> '/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'
> usermod: warning: unable to relabel the homedir (...)
> 
> But homedir was changed anyway...
> 
> Just to let you know... (?)

If you are using Fedora, then this would be best directed to
selinux@lists.fedoraproject.org (formerly
fedora-selinux-list@redhat.com).

It would help to identify your distribution, shadow-utils version,
SELinux status (sestatus), etc.

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National Security Agency


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Re: No such file or directory: '/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 02/23/2010 11:14 AM, Denis BUCHER wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I got the following error while I just wanted to change the homedir of 
> a user. I hope it's the right place to ask ? (Nothing found on the web)
>
> # usermod -d <path> <user>
>
> /usr/sbin/genhomedircon: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
> '/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'
> usermod: warning: unable to relabel the homedir (...)
>
> But homedir was changed anyway...
>
> Just to let you know... (?)
>
> Denis
>
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>
Do you have SELinux enabled?  Does the entire path exists?
/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files


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Re: No such file or directory: '/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'

[Denis BUCHER]

Dear Stephen, Dear Daniel,

Le 23.02.2010 17:29, Stephen Smalley a écrit :
>> # usermod -d<path>  <user>
>>
>> /usr/sbin/genhomedircon: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>> '/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'
>> usermod: warning: unable to relabel the homedir (...)
>>
>> But homedir was changed anyway...
>>
>> Just to let you know... (?)
>
> If you are using Fedora, then this would be best directed to
> selinux@lists.fedoraproject.org (formerly
> fedora-selinux-list@redhat.com).

Yes, in fact the error came only once and the change was commited 
anyway, therefore it's more by curiosity than a real problem, but I 
think it's always better to be sure ;-)

> It would help to identify your distribution, shadow-utils version,
> SELinux status (sestatus), etc.

I am using CentOS (for the first time, choice of our provider).
CentOS 5.4

# uname -a
Linux (server) 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Installed Packages
Name       : shadow-utils
Arch       : x86_64
Epoch      : 2
Version    : 4.0.17
Release    : 14.el5

# sestatus
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /selinux
Current mode:                   permissive
Mode from config file:          disabled
Policy version:                 21
Policy from config file:        targeted

Le 23.02.2010 18:16, Daniel J Walsh a écrit :
 > Do you have SELinux enabled? Does the entire path exists?
 > /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files

# find /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/
/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/
/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/netfilter_contexts

Sorry I know it looks strange but I am customising the server as 
installed by the provider and in the past I never used SELinux...

Thanks a lot for your help :-) (And hope it will help others some day 
too...)

Denis

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Re: No such file or directory: '/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'

[Stephen Smalley]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 18:36 +0100, Denis BUCHER wrote:
> Dear Stephen, Dear Daniel,
> 
> Le 23.02.2010 17:29, Stephen Smalley a écrit :
> >> # usermod -d<path>  <user>
> >>
> >> /usr/sbin/genhomedircon: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> >> '/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs'
> >> usermod: warning: unable to relabel the homedir (...)
> >>
> >> But homedir was changed anyway...
> >>
> >> Just to let you know... (?)
> >
> > If you are using Fedora, then this would be best directed to
> > selinux@lists.fedoraproject.org (formerly
> > fedora-selinux-list@redhat.com).
> 
> Yes, in fact the error came only once and the change was commited 
> anyway, therefore it's more by curiosity than a real problem, but I 
> think it's always better to be sure ;-)
> 
> > It would help to identify your distribution, shadow-utils version,
> > SELinux status (sestatus), etc.
> 
> I am using CentOS (for the first time, choice of our provider).
> CentOS 5.4
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux (server) 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Installed Packages
> Name       : shadow-utils
> Arch       : x86_64
> Epoch      : 2
> Version    : 4.0.17
> Release    : 14.el5
> 
> # sestatus
> SELinux status:                 enabled
> SELinuxfs mount:                /selinux
> Current mode:                   permissive
> Mode from config file:          disabled
> Policy version:                 21
> Policy from config file:        targeted

That looks very odd - you have SELinux status:  enabled but Mode from
config file:  disabled?  Did you just modify /etc/selinux/config after
booting?

> Le 23.02.2010 18:16, Daniel J Walsh a écrit :
>  > Do you have SELinux enabled? Does the entire path exists?
>  > /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files
> 
> # find /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/
> /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/
> /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/netfilter_contexts
> 
> Sorry I know it looks strange but I am customising the server as 
> installed by the provider and in the past I never used SELinux...
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help :-) (And hope it will help others some day 
> too...)

Looks like you don't have a policy installed?
rpm -q selinux-policy-targeted

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