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CHCON

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: October 2021
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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 SELinux security context of each FILE to CONTEXT.With --reference, change the security context of each FILE to that of RFILE.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

--dereference

affect the referent of each symbolic link (this isthe default), rather than the symbolic link itself

-h, --no-dereference

affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file

-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

--no-preserve-root

do not treat '/' specially (the default)

--preserve-root

fail to operate recursively on '/'

--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

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

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chcon>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) chcon invocationaq

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