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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.

affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
set user USER in the target security context
set role ROLE in the target security context
set type TYPE in the target security context
set range RANGE in the target security context
do not treat '/' specially (the default)
fail to operate recursively on '/'
use RFILE's security context rather than specifying a CONTEXT value
operate on files and directories recursively
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.

if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it
traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered
do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
display this help and exit
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