I'm having a strange problem with selinux and the mounting of a nfs directory. I'm specifying the security context as part of the mount command, yet the security context still shows nfs.

The mount shows what the security context should be:

[root@clienthost ~]# mount serverhost:/usr/local on /usr/local type nfs4 (rw,context="system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0",hard,intr,addr=serverhost,clientaddr=clienthost)

yet the directory permissions show the security context of nfs:

[root@clienthost ~]# ls -dZ /usr/local drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0 /usr/local

My /etc/fstab entry is:

serverhost:/usr/local /usr/local nfs context=system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0,rw,hard,intr 0 0

This is causing some issues with some of my scripts.

Both the client and server are 6.2 servers. The client is a virtual image running on the server.

The only clue that i have is system logger shows:

Mar 6 13:44:39 clienthost kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev 0:14, type nfs4), uses genfs_contexts Mar 6 13:44:39 clienthost kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev 0:15, type nfs4), uses genfs_contexts

I can't find any errors anywhere else on either my client or server. There is nothing in the audit logs on either host.

Does anybody have any ideas?

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