CHCON(1)

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 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

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

Packaged by Cygwin (8.23-4) Copyright © 2014 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.

AUTHOR
Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering.

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.