1restorecon(8)                                                    restorecon(8)
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NAME

6       restorecon - restore file(s) default SELinux security contexts.
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SYNOPSIS

10       restorecon  [-o outfilename ] [-R] [-n] [-p] [-v] [-e directory ] path‐
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13       restorecon -f infilename [-o outfilename ] [-e directory  ]  [-R]  [-n]
14       [-p] [-v] [-F]
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DESCRIPTION

18       This manual page describes the restorecon program.
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20       This  program  is  primarily used to set the security context (extended
21       attributes) on one or more files.
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23       It can be run at any time to correct errors, to  add  support  for  new
24       policy,  or  with the -n option it can just check whether the file con‐
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OPTIONS

29       -i     ignore files that do not exist
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31       -f infilename
32              infilename contains a list of files to be processed by  applica‐
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36              directory  to  exclude  (repeat  option for more than one direc‐
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39       -R -r  change files and directories file labels recursively
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46       -p     show progress by printing * every 1000 files.
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50       -vv    show changes in file labels, if type, role, or user  are  chang‐
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53       -F     Force  reset  of  context to match file_context for customizable
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57       ARGUMENTS
58              pathname...  The pathname for the file(s) to be relabeled.
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NOTE

61       restorecon does not follow symbolic links.
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AUTHOR

65       This man page was written by Dan Walsh  <dwalsh@redhat.com>.   Some  of
66       the content of this man page was taken from the setfiles man page writ‐
67       ten by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.  The program  was  written
68       by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.
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SEE ALSO

72       load_policy(8), checkpolicy(8) setfiles(8)
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