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 security 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 it's 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.

       -0     the separator for the input items is assumed to be the null character (instead of the white space).  The quotes  and  the  backslash
	      characters  are  also  treated  as  normal  characters that can form valid input.  This option finally also disables the end of file
	      string, which is treated like any other argument.  Useful when input items might contain white space, quote  marks  or  backslashes.
	      The -print0 option of GNU find produces input suitable for this mode.

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

NOTE

       restorecon does not follow symbolic links and by default it does not operate recursively on directories.

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>.

SEE ALSO

       setfiles(8), load_policy(8), checkpolicy(8)

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