## NAME

chcon - change file 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

## AUTHOR

Written by Russell Coker and Jim Meyering.

## REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report chcon translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

## SEE ALSO

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chcon>
or available locally via: info (aq(coreutils) chcon invocation(aq