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NAME
       chcon - change file SELinux 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

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AUTHOR
       Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  ©  2013  Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU
       GPL version 3 or later .
       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 coreutils 'chcon invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU coreutils 8.22               October 2018                         CHCON(1)