CHCON
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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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 security context of each FILE to CONTEXT.
With --reference, change the security context of each FILE to that of RFILE.
- -h, --no-dereference
-
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
- --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
- -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
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
Report chcon bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report chcon translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 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.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
chcon
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
chcon
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils 'chcon invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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