NAME¶

restorecon_xattr - manage security.restorecon_last extended attribute entries added by setfiles(8) or restorecon(8).

SYNOPSIS¶

restorecon_xattr [-d] [-D] [-m] [-n] [-r] [-v] [-e directory] [-f specfile] pathname

DESCRIPTION¶

restorecon_xattr will display the SHA1 digests added to extended attributes security.restorecon_last or delete the attribute completely. These attributes are set by restorecon(8) or setfiles(8) to specified directories when relabeling recursively.

restorecon_xattr is useful for managing the extended attribute entries particularly when users forget what directories they ran restorecon(8) or setfiles(8) from.

RAMFS and TMPFS filesystems do not support the security.restorecon_last extended attribute and are automatically excluded from searches.

By default restorecon_xattr will display the SHA1 digests with "Match" appended if they match the default specfile set or the specfile set used with the -f option. Non-matching SHA1 digests will be displayed with "No Match" appended. This feature can be disabled by the -n option.

OPTIONS¶

-d

delete all non-matching security.restorecon_last directory digest entries.

-D

delete all security.restorecon_last directory digest entries.

-m

do not read /proc/mounts to obtain a list of non-seclabel mounts to be excluded from relabeling checks.
Setting -m is useful where there is a non-seclabel fs mounted with a seclabel fs mounted on a directory below this.

-n

Do not append "Match" or "No Match" to displayed digests.

-r

recursively descend directories.

-v

display SHA1 digest generated by specfile set.

-e

directory
directory to exclude (repeat option for more than one directory).

-f

specfile
an optional specfile containing file context entries as described in file_contexts(5). This will be used by selabel_open(3) to retrieve the set of labeling entries, with the SHA1 digest being retrieved by selabel_digest(3). If the option is not specified, then the default file_contexts will be used.

ARGUMENTS¶

pathname

the pathname of the directory tree to be searched.

SEE ALSO¶

restorecon(8), setfiles(8)