Erik P. Olsen wrote:

[root@epo full]# su amanda -c "amlabel -f full full01"
rewinding, reading label full01
rewinding, writing label full01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write
tapelist: Permission denied

Well, I thought it was permissions for the file tapelist and changed
that to full permission, but still got the same error.

I then saw syslog had the following message:

Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su(pam_unix)[9298]: session opened for user amanda
by erik(uid=0)
Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su[9298]: Warning!  Could not relabel /dev/pts/1
with user_u:object_r:devpts_t, not relabeling.Operation not permitted
Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su(pam_unix)[9298]: session closed for user amanda

I have no idea whatsoever what this is all about. I would be grateful if
someone would explain to me what the heck it is and how I can satisfy
amlabel?

FC3 ?

The "relabel" in syslog has nothing to do with amlabel.  You seem to
have SElinux enabled.  You have a problem with "su" being restricted
by selinux.

The better way is study selinux, and configure the system to allow
what you want.  Studying takes a few days, at least...



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