Re: Suppressing selinux label getxattrs on FUSE

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On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Christopher J. PeBenito
<cpebenito@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/06/12 06:51, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> What is the best way to stop to SELinux from trying read ACL security
>> labels for (FUSE) mounts?
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> From what I read, Selinux is not really working on FUSE filesystems,
>> however, when I run a FUSE filesystem, I see various GETXATTR calls
>> passing by asking for
>
> SELinux uses the security.selinux xattr.
>
>> security.capability
>
> I'm guessing this is for fs capabilities.
>
>> system.posix_acl_default
>> system.posix_acl_access
>
> POSIX ACL.
>
> You'd presumably have to disable these mechanisms to eliminate this access.

Would you have some pointers to background on these mechanisms?  Sorry
for the newbie-ish question.

-- 
Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xxxxxxxxx - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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