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.TH CHCON "1" "January 2024" "GNU coreutils 9.4" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
chcon \- change file security context
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chcon
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,CONTEXT FILE\/\fR...
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.B chcon
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,-u USER\/\fR] [\fI\,-r ROLE\/\fR] [\fI\,-l RANGE\/\fR] [\fI\,-t TYPE\/\fR] \fI\,FILE\/\fR...
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.B chcon
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,--reference=RFILE FILE\/\fR...
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
Change the SELinux security context of each FILE to CONTEXT.
With \fB\-\-reference\fR, change the security context of each FILE to that of RFILE.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.TP
\fB\-\-dereference\fR
affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is
the default), rather than the symbolic link itself
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-no\-dereference\fR
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
.TP
\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-user\fR=\fI\,USER\/\fR
set user USER in the target security context
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-role\fR=\fI\,ROLE\/\fR
set role ROLE in the target security context
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-type\fR=\fI\,TYPE\/\fR
set type TYPE in the target security context
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-range\fR=\fI\,RANGE\/\fR
set range RANGE in the target security context
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-preserve\-root\fR
do not treat '/' specially (the default)
.TP
\fB\-\-preserve\-root\fR
fail to operate recursively on '/'
.TP
\fB\-\-reference\fR=\fI\,RFILE\/\fR
use RFILE's security context rather than specifying
a CONTEXT value
.TP
\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR
operate on files and directories recursively
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
output a diagnostic for every file processed
.PP
The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the \fB\-R\fR
option is also specified.  If more than one is specified, only the final
one takes effect.
.TP
\fB\-H\fR
if a command line argument is a symbolic link
to a directory, traverse it
.TP
\fB\-L\fR
traverse every symbolic link to a directory
encountered
.TP
\fB\-P\fR
do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chcon>
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or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) chcon invocation\(aq