On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 05:07:23PM +0530, Murali Selvaraj wrote:
> -> Since we have required CAPs CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the profile and it
> applied to the process as well but still observing
>    that mount and unmount fails [ "must be superuser to mount" and
> "must be superuser to unmount" ].

How did you grant CAP_SYS_ADMIN to the process?

> -> Does mount/umount restriction is done by util-linux package? As per
> our understanding CAP_SYS_ADMIN (capable) check
>    would be taken care of in Kernel code. It looks like user space
> (util-linux package) restricts this permission issue.
>    Please clarify my understanding.

No, mount(8) is simply reporting the error message from the mount(2)
system call.

> -> What would be ideal options to resolve the issue ( "non-root" user
> does mount/umount operation ).

If you didn't get any DENIED entries from AppArmor in your logs, then I
suspect that your process didn't actually get the CAP_SYS_ADMIN privilege
from its parent.

Thanks

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