SELinux - copying ISO file content

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Oct 7 16:14:13 UTC 2008


Christian Iseli wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:16:50 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> mount -o context="system_u:object_r:vmblock:s0"  -t vboxsf
>> VMShared /mnt
>>
>> Does this fix it?
> 
> Hmm, despite what is said in the manpage of mount, the option context=
> appears to not be accepted in this case:
> # mount -o context=system_u:object_r:vmblock:s0 -t vboxsf VMShared /mnt
> unknown mount option `context="system_u:object_r:vmblock:s0"'
> valid options:
>   rw         mount read write (default)
>   ro         mount read only
>   uid       =<arg> default file owner user id
>   gid       =<arg> default file owner group id
>   ttl       =<arg> time to live for dentry
>   iocharset =<arg> i/o charset (default utf8)
>   convertcp =<arg> convert share name from given charset to utf8
>   dmode     =<arg> mode of all directories
>   fmode     =<arg> mode of all regular files
>   umask     =<arg> umask of directories and regular files
>   dmask     =<arg> umask of directories
>   fmask     =<arg> umask of regular files
> 
> I suppose this is a problem of the mount.vboxfs utility rather than of
> mount itself ?  In this case, I guess I'll look into filing a bug
> report.

You want a context of system_u:object_r:vmblock_t:s0 rather than 
system_u:object_r:vmblock:s0 methinks.

Paul.




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