mounting of samba shares via fstab in F8 (and recently updated F7)

[Eric Anderson]

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All,

~   I have run into a problem with reading a credentials file from fstab
at startup. I have been working with Dan Walsh and have at least a
temporary resolution. Details of our e-mail conversation are below:

The problem:

I get Error 13 talking about access denied
to the credentials file. If SELinux is sent to permissive, this is not
an issue. I have tried 20 different searches on google, samba.org and
several fedora sites to try to get the context required for the
credentials file to be accessible to the startup scripts that process fstab.

current SELinux context of credentials file:
# ls -lZ /root/.smb/yyy
- -rw-r-----  root root system_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 /root/.smb/yyy

fstab entry:
//mtc1-server/progs /media/mtc1-server/progs cifs
ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,credentials=/root/.smb/yyy,uid=aaaa,gid=aaaa,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775
0 0

~   If I use "su -" and manually mount the share, passing only the
directory to the mount command, it completes with no errors. This is
only an issue at startup.


The Resolution:


You should execute
# grep mount_t /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mysamba
# semodule -i mysamba.pp

This will add the new rule.

If anybody wants/needs more details, feel free to contact me.

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Eric Anderson
Communication Systems Engineer

PLEXSYS Interface Products, Inc.
E-mail: eric.anderson(a)plexsysipi.com
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
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