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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       Mandatory arguments to long options are  mandatory  for  short  options
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20       --dereference
21              affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default),
22              rather than the symbolic link itself
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24       -h, --no-dereference
25              affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
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27       -u, --user=USER
28              set user USER in the target security context
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30       -r, --role=ROLE
31              set role ROLE in the target security context
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36       -l, --range=RANGE
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39       --no-preserve-root
40              do not treat '/' specially (the default)
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42       --preserve-root
43              fail to operate recursively on '/'
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45       --reference=RFILE
46              use RFILE's security context rather than  specifying  a  CONTEXT
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49       -R, --recursive
50              operate on files and directories recursively
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52       -v, --verbose
53              output a diagnostic for every file processed
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55       The  following  options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the -R
56       option is also specified.  If more than  one  is  specified,  only  the
57       final one takes effect.
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59       -H     if  a  command  line argument is a symbolic link to a directory,
60              traverse it
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62       -L     traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered
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64       -P     do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
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66       --help display this help and exit
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68       --version
69              output version information and exit
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71       GNU  coreutils  online  help:  <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
72       Report chcon translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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AUTHOR

75       Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering.
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78       Copyright  ©  2013  Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU
79       GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
80       This is free software: you are free  to  change  and  redistribute  it.
81       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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SEE ALSO

84       The full documentation for chcon is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
85       the info and chcon programs are properly installed at  your  site,  the
86       command
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88              info coreutils 'chcon invocation'
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90       should give you access to the complete manual.
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94GNU coreutils 8.22               October 2018                         CHCON(1)
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