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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding the line after (if it exists) Post 302380073 by rethink on Monday 14th of December 2009 06:03:19 AM
Old 12-14-2009
Steadyonabix, that is exactly what I was looking for and its also highly readable which is great.. I should have made it clearer that I needed to populate a variables as opposed to adding category= lines into the file ... thank you all for your guidance,
 

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CHCAT(8)							   User Commands							  CHCAT(8)

NAME
chcat - change file SELinux security category SYNOPSIS
chcat category file... chcat -l category user... chcat [[+|-]category...] file... chcat -l [[+|-]category...] user... chcat [-d] file... chcat -l [-d] user... chcat -L [ -l ] [ user ... ] DESCRIPTION
Change/Remove the security category for each file or user. Use +/- to add/remove categories from a file or user. Note: When removing a category you must specify '--' on the command line before using the -Category syntax. This tells the command that you have finished entering options and are now specifying a category name instead. -d delete the category from each FILE/USER. -L list available categories. -l Tells chcat to operate on users instead of files. SEE ALSO
chcon(1), selinux(8), semanage(8) When operating on files this script wraps the chcon command. FILES
/etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/setrans.conf /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/seusers chcat September 2005 CHCAT(8)
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