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chcon - change file security context

Author

       Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering.

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

Name

       chcon - change file security context

Reporting Bugs

       GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

See Also

       Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chcon>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chcon invocation'

GNU coreutils 9.5                                  April 2025                                           CHCON(1)

Synopsis

chcon [OPTION]... CONTEXTFILE...
       chcon [OPTION]... [-uUSER] [-rROLE] [-lRANGE] [-tTYPE] FILE...
       chcon [OPTION]... --reference=RFILEFILE...

See Also