Re: tty files, console login on debian

[Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:19, Erich Schubert <erich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just updated my system to your lates debian policy package.
> Afterwards I could no longer login on the console, ssh worked.
> I believe i found the problem in types/file.te:
> I solved it by adding the following:

I've just uploaded a new Debian policy package that fixes this among other 
things.

> Since the type of the staff/user ttys is "ttyfile", but no longer
> "device_type". Maybe you'll prefer a different fix, though.
> It is also possible that the mountpoint or so needs to be relabeled?
> (redhat appears to have tmpfs_t there, not fs_t)

In Fedora now the terminal device nodes are only on tmpfs_t for a udev managed 
tmpfs on /dev.  In Debian the normal use is to have ext2/3 file systems for 
root which includes /dev.

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