On 25 Oct, 17:32, Nico wrote:
> I'm running Xen guest domains, and backing them up with rsnapshot.
> When I've first attempted a bare metal restoration, I'm finding that
> SELinux is preventing SSH attempts into the restored OS.
>
> The system was a brand new Xen guest domain, from RHEL 5 media. The
> rsnapshot was of a clean OS, and restored directly onto a new
> partition.
>
> But when I SSH to the restored system, I see this. Turning off SELinux
> enables me to log in, but I'm not sure how to best restore SELinux for
> the restored system.
>
> ssh targethhost
>
> nkadel@targethost:
> Warning: Your password will expire in 4 days.
> Last login: Wed Oct 24 15:15:02 2007 from mymachine.localdomain
>
> /bin/bash: Permission denied

OK, I found a complete hack workaround. Remove the SELinux toolset,
including selinux-policy packages, setools, etc. and re-install them.
This seems to reset things correctly. You still need to re-activate
SELinux if you do this, but it works.