chcon - change file security context
chcon [
OPTION]...
CONTEXT FILE...
chcon [
OPTION]... [
-u USER] [
-r ROLE] [
-l
RANGE] [
-t TYPE]
FILE...
chcon [
OPTION]...
--reference=RFILE FILE...
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
Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering.
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Full documentation <
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chcon>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chcon invocation'