setfiles(8) setfiles(8)
NAME
setfiles - set SELinux file security contexts.
SYNOPSIS
setfiles [-c policy] [-d] [-l] [-n] [-e directory] [-o filename] [-p] [-q] [-s] [-v] [-W] [-F] spec_file path‐
name...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page describes the setfiles program.
This program is primarily used to initialize the security context fields (extended attributes) on one or more
filesystems (or parts of them). Usually it is initially run as part of the SELinux installation process (a
step commonly known as labeling).
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) or by some other policy (see the -c option).
If a file object does not have a context, setfiles will write the default context to the file object's
extended attributes. If a file object has a context, setfiles will only modify the type portion of the secu‐
rity context. The -F option will force a replacement of the entire context.
OPTIONS
-c check the validity of the contexts against the specified binary policy.
-d show what specification matched each file (do not abort validation after 10 errors).
-e directory
directory to exclude (repeat option for more than one directory).
-f take a list of files to be processed from an input file.
-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.
-l log changes in file labels to syslog.
-n don't change any file labels (passive check).
-o filename
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.)
-q suppress non-error output.
-r rootpath
use an alternate root path.
ARGUMENTS
spec_file The specification file which contains lines of the following form
regexp [ -type ] ( context | <<none>> )
The regular expression is anchored at both ends. The optional type field specifies the file type as shown in
the mode field by the ls(1) program, e.g. -- to match only regular files or -d to match only directories. The
context can be an ordinary security context or the string <<none>> to specify that the file is not to have its
context changed.
The last matching specification is used. If there are multiple hard links to a file that match different spec‐
ifications and those specifications indicate different security contexts, then a warning is displayed but the
file is still labeled based on the last matching specification other than <<none>>.
pathname...
The pathname for the root directory of each file system to be relabeled or a specific directory within
a filesystem that should be recursively descended and relabeled or the pathname of a file that should
be relabeled. Not used if the -f or the -s option is used.
AUTHOR
This man page was written by Russell Coker <[email protected]>. The program was written by Stephen Smalley
<[email protected]>
SEE ALSO
restorecon(8), load_policy(8), checkpolicy(8)
2002031409 setfiles(8)
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