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 © 2011 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.