RE: mount point labels

[Stephen Smalley <sds tycho nsa gov>]

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 09:20 -0700, Clarkson, Mike R (US SSA) wrote:
> The kernel version is 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5, and the version of nfs-utils is
> 1:1.0.9-16.el5.
> 
> I do already have the same file system automounted elsewhere. Is that
> causing the problem?

Yes, the context= mount must be applied on the first mount of the
filesystem or it has no effect.

> By the way, can mount point labels be applied to automounted file
> systems? If so, how would I do that? Would I put the label into the
> automount file (auto.*) in the /etc directory?

You can specify mount options in your automounter maps (like
auto.master), so you should be able to specify a context= option there
too.  I haven't specifically tried it though.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency