Unable to login to Cockpit - "Permission denied"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • All logins give a "permission denied" message
  • Unable to login to GUI - error "could not set limit for 'nofile': Operation not permitted"
  • Unable to login to GUI - error "could not set limit for 'core': Permission denied"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3
  • selinux-policy older than 3.13.1-135.el7

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