CHCON(1) User Commands 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 security context of each FILE to CONTEXT. With --reference, change the secu-
rity context of each FILE to that of RFILE.
-c, --changes
like verbose but report only when a change is made
-h, --no-dereference
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (available only on systems
with lchown system call)
--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 spec-
ified. 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.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008 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 chcon
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty January 2008 CHCON(1)
Generated by $Id: phpMan.php,v 4.49 2006/02/26 13:18:18 chedong Exp $ Author: Che Dong
On Apache
Under GNU General Public License
2012-05-25 14:59 @38.107.179.240 Crawled by CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)