From 3142564b244b3163446d59f83390f73cea85097b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:43:56 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] mount: add hint that context= has to be quoted

Addresses: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747038

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

---

 mount/mount.8 |   17 ++++++++++++++++-

 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8

index 2c4f636..00b512e 100644

--- a/mount/mount.8

+++ b/mount/mount.8

@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ xattrs are supported, you can save time not having to label every file by

 assigning the entire disk one security context.

 A commonly used option for removable media is

-.BR context=system_u:object_r:removable_t .

+.BR context="system_u:object_r:removable_t" .

 Two other options are

 .BR fscontext=

@@ -875,8 +875,23 @@ useful for things like stateless linux.

 Note that kernel rejects any remount request that includes the context

 option even if unchanged from the current context.

+.B Warning that \fIcontext\fP value might contains comma

+and in this case the value has to be properly quoted otherwise

+.BR mount (8)

+will interpret the comma as separator between mount options. Don't forget that

+shell strips off quotes and

+.BR "double quoting is required" ,

+for example:

+.RS

+.RS

+.sp

+mount -t tmpfs none /mnt \-o 'context="system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0:c127,c456",noexec'

+.sp

+.RE

+

 For more details, see

 .BR selinux (8)

+.RE

 .TP

 .B defaults

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