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CHCON

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: August 2009
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NAME

chcon - change file security context 

SYNOPSIS

chcon[OPTION]... CONTEXT FILE...
chcon[OPTION]... [-u USER] [-r ROLE] [-l RANGE] [-t TYPE] FILE...
chcon[OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE... 

DESCRIPTION

Change the security context of each FILE to CONTEXT.With --reference, change the security context of each FILE to that of RFILE.

-h, --no-dereference

affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file

--reference=RFILE

use RFILE's security context rather than specifyinga CONTEXT value

-R, --recursive

operate on files and directories recursively

-v, --verbose

output a diagnostic for every file processed

-u, --user=USER

set user USER in the target security context

-r, --role=ROLE

set role ROLE in the target security context

-t, --type=TYPE

set type TYPE in the target security context

-l, --range=RANGE

set range RANGE in the target security context

The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the -Roption is also specified. If more than one is specified, only the finalone takes effect.

-H

if a command line argument is a symbolic linkto a directory, traverse it

-L

traverse every symbolic link to a directoryencountered

-P

do not traverse any symbolic links (default)

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

 

AUTHOR

Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering. 

REPORTING BUGS

Report chcon bugs to bug-coreutilsAATTgnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 

SEE ALSO

The full documentation forchconis maintained as a Texinfo manual. If theinfoandchconprograms are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils aqchcon invocationaq

should give you access to the complete manual.

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