Description of problem: SELinux policy appears to prevent automount from mounting. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-3.10.0-128.fc17.noarch How reproducible: 100%. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny, /etc/hosts, /etc/exports to allow NFS and autofs to mount. 2. Try listing 'ls /net/some_host_name/' 3. Observe an SELinux warning and open it. Actual results: The SELinux warning says: The source process: /usr/bin/automount Attempted this access: read On this file: /etc/hosts Expected results: I expect the above 'ls' command to produce a directory listing for valid hosts that have exported filesystems. Additional info: Disabling SELinux in /etc/selinux/config allows automount to work. I checked for updates just now, and my system is up to date. It looks like Red Hat Bugzilla Bug ID 197089 from 2006 is quite a bit like this one. Thanks....
You can switch to permissive mode using # setenforce 0 then re-test it and execute # auseearch -m avc -ts recent which will show us AVC msgs which we need to see.