On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 13:26 -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 10:50 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > >> NOTE: We added the check for RO, to allow tools like mock to be able to > >> tell a chroot that SELinux is disabled while enforcing it outside the > >> chroot. > >> > >> > >> # getenforce > >> Enabled > >> # mount -t selinuxfs -o remount,ro selinuxfs /var/chroot/selinux > > > > Just to clarify, the right commands to use are: > > mount --bind /selinux /var/chroot/selinux > > mount -o remount,ro /var/chroot/selinux > > > > Do not use: > > mount -t selinuxfs -o ro selinuxfs /var/chroot/selinux > > as this will in fact change the flags on /selinux as well. Surprise! > > Result of there only being a single instance (superblock) of selinuxfs, > > although you can have multiple vfsmounts of it. > > surprise, this doesn't work either! > # cat mount.F16 | grep selinux > mount --bind /selinux /mnt/F16/sys/fs/selinux/ > mount -o remount,ro /mnt/F16/sys/fs/selinux/ > > # cat /proc/mounts | grep selinux > selinuxfs /selinux selinuxfs ro,relatime 0 0 > selinuxfs /mnt/F16/sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs ro,relatime 0 0 > > crap. Hmmm...works for me on F14 (yeah, I know - ancient history). # mkdir -p /var/chroot/selinux # mount --bind /selinux /var/chroot/selinux # mount -o remount,ro /var/chroot/selinux # cat /proc/mounts | grep selinux none /selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0 none /var/chroot/selinux selinuxfs ro,relatime 0 0 # echo 0 > /selinux/enforce # echo 0 > /var/chroot/selinux/enforce bash: /var/chroot/selinux/enforce: Read-only file system Did something change recently in the kernel or mount? -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.