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CHCON

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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.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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