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matchpathcon(8)                           SELinux Command Line documentation                          matchpathcon(8)



NAME
       matchpathcon - get the default SELinux security context for the specified path from the file contexts configu‐
       ration

SYNOPSIS
       matchpathcon [-V] [-N] [-n] [-m type] [-f file_contexts_file] [-p prefix] [-P policy_root_path] filepath...

DESCRIPTION
       matchpathcon queries the system policy and outputs the default security context associated with the filepath.

       Note: Identical paths can have different security contexts, depending on the file type (regular  file,  direc‐
       tory, link file, char file ...).

       matchpathcon  will  also  take the file type into consideration in determining the default security context if
       the file exists.  If the file does not exist, no file type matching will occur.

OPTIONS
       -m type
              Force file type for the lookup.  Valid  types  are  file,  dir,  pipe,  chr_file,  blk_file,  lnk_file,
              sock_file.

       -n     Do not display path.

       -N     Do not use translations.

       -f file_context_file
              Use alternate file_context file

       -p prefix
              Use prefix to speed translations

       -P policy_root_path
              Use alternate policy root path

       -V     Verify file context on disk matches defaults

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <[email protected]>.

SEE ALSO
       selinux(8), matchpathcon(3)



[email protected]                                   21 April 2005                                     matchpathcon(8)