I had this too but then I just installed to /usr/local and it worked fine.
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Tim Cuthbertson <t...@gfxmonk.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
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