Why generic mount options like nodev, nosuid, noexec are not displayed on automount maps?

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Issue

  • CIS benchmarks or certain hardening tools recommends adding some specific mount options on all mount points/filesystems.
  • Need to add several mount options like nodev or nosuid or noexec on all or selective mount points.
  • There are certain entries in the mount table, having FS type specified as autofs. What are these?
  • How to add options as desired for these filesystems?

    $ grep autofs /proc/self/mounts | grep -v systemd
    /etc/auto.misc /test autofs rw,relatime,fd=6,pgrp=11037,timeout=10,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect,strictexpire,pipe_ino=47435 0 0
    /etc/auto.test /test1/test2 autofs rw,relatime,fd=12,pgrp=11037,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=47444 0 0
    /etc/auto.cifs /cifs autofs rw,relatime,fd=18,pgrp=11037,timeout=60,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect,pipe_ino=47450 0 0
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • autofs

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