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NAME

6       chcon - change file SELinux security context
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SYNOPSIS

9       chcon [OPTION]... CONTEXT FILE...
10       chcon [OPTION]... [-u USER] [-r ROLE] [-l RANGE] [-t TYPE] FILE...
11       chcon [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...
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DESCRIPTION

14       Change  the  SELinux  security  context  of each FILE to CONTEXT.  With
15       --reference, change the security context of each FILE to that of RFILE.
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17       --dereference
18              affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default),
19              rather than the symbolic link itself
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21       -h, --no-dereference
22              affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
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24       --reference=RFILE
25              use  RFILE's  security  context rather than specifying a CONTEXT
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28       -R, --recursive
29              operate on files and directories recursively
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31       -v, --verbose
32              output a diagnostic for every file processed
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34       -u, --user=USER
35              set user USER in the target security context
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37       -r, --role=ROLE
38              set role ROLE in the target security context
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40       -t, --type=TYPE
41              set type TYPE in the target security context
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43       -l, --range=RANGE
44              set range RANGE in the target security context
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46       The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when  the  -R
47       option  is  also  specified.   If  more than one is specified, only the
48       final one takes effect.
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50       -H     if a command line argument is a symbolic link  to  a  directory,
51              traverse it
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53       -L     traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered
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55       -P     do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
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57       --help display this help and exit
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59       --version
60              output version information and exit
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AUTHOR

63       Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering.
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REPORTING BUGS

66       Report chcon bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
67       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
68       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
69       Report chcon translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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72       Copyright  ©  2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU
73       GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
74       This is free software: you are free  to  change  and  redistribute  it.
75       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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SEE ALSO

78       The full documentation for chcon is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
79       the info and chcon programs are properly installed at  your  site,  the
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82              info coreutils 'chcon invocation'
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84       should give you access to the complete manual.
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88GNU coreutils 8.4                  June 2018                          CHCON(1)
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