NAME¶
setfiles - set file SELinux security contexts.
SYNOPSIS¶
setfiles [-c policy ] [-d] [-l] [-n] [-e directory ] [-o filename ]
[-q] [-s] [-v] [-vv|-p] [-W] [-F] spec_file pathname...
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page describes the
setfiles program.
This program is primarily used to initialize the security context database
(extended attributes) on one or more filesystems. This program is initially
run as part of the SE Linux installation process.
It can also be run at any time to correct errors, to add support for new policy,
or with the -n option it can just check whether the file contexts are all as
you expect.
It is the same executable as
setfiles but operates in a slightly
different manner depending on it's argv[0].
OPTIONS¶
- -c
- check the validity of the contexts against the specified
binary policy.
- -d
- show what specification matched each file.
- -l
- log changes in file labels to syslog.
- -n
- don't change any file labels.
- -p
- show progress by printing * every 1000 files.
- -q
- suppress non-error output.
- -r rootpath
- use an alternate root path
- -e directory
- directory to exclude (repeat option for more than one
directory.)
- -F
- Force reset of context to match file_context for
customizable files
- -o filename
- save list of files with incorrect context in filename.
- -s
- take a list of files from standard input instead of using a
pathname on the command line.
- -v
- show changes in file labels, if type or role are
changing.
- -vv
- show changes in file labels, if type, role, or user are
changing.
- -p
- show a progress indication in the form of one dot per 1000
files.
- -W
- display warnings about entries that had no matching
files.
- -0
- Input items are terminated by a null character instead of
by whitespace, and the quotes and backslash are not special (every
character is taken literally). Disables the end of file string, which is
treated like any other argument. Useful when input items might contain
white space, quote marks, or backslashes.The GNU find -print0 option
produces input suitable for this mode.
ARGUMENTS¶
spec_file The specification file which contains lines of the following
form
regexp [ -type ] ( context | <<none>> )
The regular expression is anchored at both ends. The optional type field
specifies the file type as shown in the mode field by the
ls(1)
program, e.g. -- to match only regular files or -d to match only directories.
The context can be an ordinary security context or the string
<<none>> to specify that the file is not to have its context
changed.
The last matching specification is used. If there are multiple hard links to a
file that match different specifications and those specifications indicate
different security contexts, then a warning is displayed but the file is still
labeled based on the last matching specification other than
<<none>>.
- pathname...
- The pathname for the root directory of each file system to
be relabeled. Not used if the -s option is used.
AUTHOR¶
This man page was written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>. The
program was written by Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
SEE ALSO¶
load_policy(8),
checkpolicy(8)