Not really a question - more of an info piece for those who switch to fish as default shell and run into the same problem:
I switched to fish as my login shell and it's generally been quite fine. But when my window manager crashed I had to switch to a virtual console to fix it. I couldn't log in, and having a look at `journaltctl` showed that I was getting: > SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/login from execute access on the file > /home/tim/.bin/fish Further prodding revelaed that the `login` process is only allowed to exec files with SELinux type `local_login_t` (or at least that's how I read the error message). $ chcon -t local_login_t ~/.bin/fish chcon: Permission denied Unfortunately, even "sudo make me a sandwich" failed: $ sudo chcon -t local_login_t ~/.bin/fish chcon: Permission denied Some googling turned up: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2006-March/msg00121.html In which it's explained that mount_t is a domain, not a type you can assign to a directory. I guess local_login_t is similar, so I checked out what type `bash` has: $ ls -Z /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:shell_exec_t:s0 /bin/bash* That'll do: $ chcon -t shell_exec_t ~/.bin/fish Any my virtual console login is now working with `fish`. Might be worth a warning somewhere official, if this is a problem many people will hit (I assume you'll always get it in rhel/fedora at least, although the .rpms may have this set properly - I compiled fish myself). Cheers, - Tim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
