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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 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

AUTHOR

Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering.

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