CHCON(1) | User Commands | CHCON(1) |
NAME¶
chcon - change file SELinux 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 is the 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 specifying a 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 -R option is also specified. If more than one is specified, only the final one takes effect.
- -H
- if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it
- -L
- traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered
- -P
- do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report chcon translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR¶
Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2013 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 for chcon is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and chcon programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info coreutils 'chcon invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
November 2020 | GNU coreutils 8.22 |