restorecon

NAME

restorecon - set file security contexts.

SYNOPSIS

restorecon [-o outfilename ] [-R] [-n] [-v] pathname... restorecon -f infilename [-o outfilename ] [-R] [-n] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page describes the restorecon program. This program is primarily used to set the security context (extended attributes) on one or more files. It can be run at any time to correct errors, to add support for new policy, or with the -n option it can just check whether the file contexts are all as you expect.

OPTIONS

-f infilename: infilename contains a list of files to be processed by application. Use - for stdin.
-R: change files and directories file labels recursively
-n: don't change any file labels.
-o outfilename: save list of files with incorrect context in outfilename.
-v: show changes in file labels.

ARGUMENTS

pathname... The pathname for the file(s) to be relabeled.

AUTHOR

This man page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>. Some of the content of this man page was taken from the setfiles man page written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>. The program was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.