User Commands						 CHCON(1)



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	security context of each FILE to  CONTEXT.   With
     --reference,  change  the	security  context of each FILE to
     that of RFILE.

     -h, --no-dereference
	  affect symbolic links	instead	of any referenced file

     --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

     -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

     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



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User Commands						 CHCON(1)



     --version
	  output version information and exit

AUTHOR
     Written by	Russell	Coker and Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report chcon bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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     <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
     General	    help	using	     GNU	software:
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COPYRIGHT
     Copyright c 2009 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	redistri-
     bute  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.


























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