restorecon(8) restorecon(8)
NAME
restorecon - restore file(s) default SELinux security contexts.
SYNOPSIS
restorecon [-R] [-n] [-p] [-v] [-e directory] pathname...
restorecon -f infilename [-e directory] [-R] [-n] [-p] [-v] [-F]
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 also be run at any other time to correct inconsistent labels, to add support for newly-installed policy
or, by using the -n option, to passively check whether the file contexts are all set as specified by the
active policy (default behavior).
If a file object does not have a context, restorecon will write the default context to the file object's
extended attributes. If a file object has a context, restorecon will only modify the type portion of the secu‐
rity context. The -F option will force a replacement of the entire context.
It is the same executable as setfiles but operates in a slightly different manner depending on its argv[0].
OPTIONS
-e directory
exclude a directory (repeat the option to exclude more than one directory, Requires full path).
-f infilename
infilename contains a list of files to be processed. Use - for stdin.
-F Force reset of context to match file_context for customizable files, and the default file context,
changing the user, role, range portion as well as the type.
-h, -? display usage information and exit.
-i ignore files that do not exist.
-n don't change any file labels (passive check). To display the files whose labels would be changed, add
-v.
-o outfilename
Deprecated, SELinux policy will probably block this access. Use shell redirection to save list of
files with incorrect context in filename.
-p show progress by printing * every 1024 files. (If you relabel the entire OS, this will show you the
percentage complete.)
-R, -r change files and directories file labels recursively (descend directories).
Note: restorecon reports warnings on paths without default labels only if called non-recursively or in
verbose mode.
-v show changes in file labels, if type or role are going to be changed.
AUTHOR
This man page was written by Dan Walsh <[email protected]>. Some of the content of this man page was taken
from the setfiles man page written by Russell Coker <[email protected]>. The program was written by Dan
Walsh <[email protected]>.
SEE ALSO
setfiles(8), load_policy(8), checkpolicy(8)
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