chcon - Change the SELinux security context of each FILE to
CONTEXT. With --reference, change the security context of each FILE to that
of RFILE.
chcon [--help] [--dereference]
[-h|--no-dereference] [--preserve-root]
[--no-preserve-root] [--reference] [-u|--user]
[-r|--role] [-t|--type]
[-l|--range] [-R|--recursive] [-H ]
[-L ] [-P ] [-v|--verbose]
[-V|--version] [FILE]
Change the SELinux security context of each FILE to CONTEXT. With
--reference, change the security context of each FILE to that of RFILE.
- --help
- Print help information.
- --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.
- --preserve-root
- Fail to operate recursively on '/'.
- --no-preserve-root
- Do not treat '/' specially (the default).
- --reference=RFILE
- Use security context of RFILE, rather than specifying a CONTEXT
value.
- -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.
- -R,
--recursive
- Operate on files and directories recursively.
- -H
- If a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it.
Only valid when -R is specified.
- -L
- Traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered. Only valid when
-R is specified.
- -P
- Do not traverse any symbolic links (default). Only valid when -R is
specified.
- -v, --verbose
- Output a diagnostic for every file processed.
- -V, --version
- Print version
- [FILE]
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