mount point labels

[Stephen Smalley]

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?

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency