Libguestfs - Jun 2012 - guestmount -i and xattrs

I tried to run chcon to set SELinux labels on a guestmounted dir and got:

chcon: failed to change context of `authorized_keys' to
`system_u:object_r:ssh_home_t:s0': Operation not supported

I'm guessing that you need to pass 'seclabel' or
'user_xattr'
or some such mount option to guestmount to support this.
I notice you can pass such options through the -m option
to guestmount, but not -i which we need to use.

Is there a way to support -i and a subsequent chcon(1)?

cheers,
P?draig.

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:17:09AM +0100, P?draig Brady
wrote:
> I tried to run chcon to set SELinux labels on a guestmounted dir and got:
> 
> chcon: failed to change context of `authorized_keys' to
> `system_u:object_r:ssh_home_t:s0': Operation not supported
> 
> I'm guessing that you need to pass 'seclabel' or
'user_xattr'
> or some such mount option to guestmount to support this.
> I notice you can pass such options through the -m option
> to guestmount, but not -i which we need to use.
> 
> Is there a way to support -i and a subsequent chcon(1)?
No.  mount-local solves this ...

I will file a bug to have this backported for RHEL 6.4.

Rich.

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