RE: mount point labels

[Stephen Smalley <sds tycho nsa gov>]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 07:29 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:34 -0600, Forrest Taylor wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 12:42 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > I cannot get this to work in RHEL5.  It complains if I have it in
> > auto.master (syntax error), so I tried to place an entry in auto.misc
> > (for /misc).  It will mount, but not with the context that I specified.
> > The logs mention that it is using genfs_contexts.
> > 
> > Looking at the mounts, I see that the options for the autofs mount point
> > include:  context=""
> > 
> > So, the options are not getting passed to the mount command, or are
> > being overridden by automount.  Any other ideas?
> 
> File a bug against autofs?

The man page for auto.master says that any remaining command line
arguments without leading dashes after the map name are taken as options
(-o) to mount.  So it seems like a bug if it doesn't pass through the
context= option properly.
 
-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency