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.REPORTING BUGS
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2016 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.