chcat - change SELinux security categories of files/users
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Description
Use +/- to add/remove categories from a file or user (only a single category can be specified at a time).
Or specify the desired list/range of categories to be applied (replacing the existing categories).
Note: When removing a category you must specify '--' on the command line before using the -Category
syntax. This tells the command that you have finished entering options and are now specifying a category
name instead.
-d delete all categories from given FILE/USER.
-L list available categories.
-l Tells chcat to operate on users instead of files.
Example
Replace categories of user "test" with c0.c6
# chcat -l c0.c6 test
Add category c1023 to user "test"
# chcat -l +c1023 test
Remove category c5 from file "file"
# chcat -- -c5 file
Remove all categories from file "file"
# chcat -d file
Files
/etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/setrans.conf /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/seusers chcat September 2005 CHCAT(8)
Name
chcat - change SELinux security categories of files/users
See Also
chcon(1), selinux(8), semanage(8) When operating on files this script wraps the chcon command.
Synopsis
chcatcategoryfile...
chcat-lcategoryuser...
chcat[[+|-]category...]file...
chcat-l[[+|-]category...]user...
chcat [-d] file...
chcat-l [-d] user...
chcat-L [ -l ] [ user ... ]
