ohh, in case it helps: the filesystem is ext3 and is running on a
raid-1 software raid device /dev/md0
The entire root filesystem is on the same partition.

On Dec 27, 3:30 pm, "jlowery" wrote:
> I have a relatively fresh FC5 installation, but for some reason I
> cannot write to /usr/sbin or /sbin as root. The only after installation
> modification to the system is an installation of zimbra in /opt/zimbra
[...]
> I am ssh'ed into the server. The same thing happens for /sbin but it
> does not happen for /usr/local/sbin
> Does FC have some magically security system that I don't know about?
> I'm coming from a Debian background.

Hi,

are you using SELinux? Check /etc/selinux/config. If yes you will have
to check the its configuration which could be preventing you to change
/sbin in your context.

Matteo

Teo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> are you using SELinux? Check /etc/selinux/config. If yes you will have
> to check the its configuration which could be preventing you to change
> /sbin in your context.
>
> Matteo

I checked the file and it seems to be disabled:

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled - SELinux is fully disabled.
SELINUX=disabled
# SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are:
# targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected.
# strict - Full SELinux protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

system-config-securitylevel also says it is disabled.


I don't know anything about selinux, but I looked in
/etc/selinux/targeted and found a few .LOCK files in there

I did find this:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinu...fc5/#id2960938

$ ls -dalZ /usr/sbin
drwxr-xr-x root root system_ubject_r:sbin_t:s0
/usr/sbin

$ ls -dalZ /sbin
drwxr-xr-x root root system_ubject_r:sbin_t:s0 /sbin