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chcon: Change SELinux context of file
chcon changes the SELinux security context of the selected files.
Synopses:
chcon [option]… context file… chcon [option]… [-u user] [-r role] [-l range] [-t type] file… chcon [option]… --reference=rfile file…
Change the SELinux security context of each file to context.
With --reference, change the security context of each file
to that of rfile.
The program accepts the following options. Also see Common options.
--dereference’
Do not affect symbolic links but what they refer to; this is the default.
-h’--no-dereference’
Affect the symbolic links themselves 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.
--preserve-root’
Refuse to operate recursively on the root directory, /,
when used together with the --recursive option.
See Treating / specially.
--no-preserve-root’
Do not treat the root directory, /, specially when operating
recursively; this is the default.
See Treating / specially.
-H’
If --recursive (-R) is specified and
a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it.
See Traversing symlinks.
-L’
In a recursive traversal, traverse every symbolic link to a directory that is encountered. See Traversing symlinks.
-P’
Do not traverse any symbolic links.
This is the default if none of -H, -L,
or -P is specified.
See Traversing symlinks.
-v’--verbose’
Output a diagnostic for every file processed.
-u user’--user=user’
Set user user in the target security context.
-r role’--role=role’
Set role role in the target security context.
-t type’--type=type’
Set type type in the target security context.
-l range’--range=range’
Set range range in the target security context.
An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value indicates failure.
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