restorecon(8)															     restorecon(8)

NAME

       restorecon - restore file(s) default SELinux security contexts.

SYNOPSIS

       restorecon [-o outfilename ] [-R] [-n] [-p] [-v] [-e directory ] pathname...

       restorecon -f infilename [-o outfilename ] [-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	be run at any time to correct errors, to add support for new policy, or with the -n option it can just check whether the file con-
       texts are all as you expect.

       It is the same executable as setfiles but operates in a slightly different manner depending on it's argv[0].

OPTIONS

       -i     ignore files that do not exist

       -f infilename
	      infilename contains a list of files to be processed by application. Use - for stdin.

       -e directory
	      directory to exclude (repeat option for more than one directory.)

       -R -r  change files and directories file labels recursively

       -n     don't change any file labels.

       -o outfilename
	      save list of files with incorrect context in outfilename.

       -p     show progress by printing * every 1000 files.

       -v     show changes in file labels.

       -vv    show changes in file labels, if type, role, or user are changing.

       -p     show a progress indication in the form of one dot per 1000 files.

       -F     Force reset of context to match file_context for customizable files, or the user section, if it has changed.

       -0     Input items are terminated by a null character instead of by whitespace,	and the quotes and backslash are not special (every  char-
	      acter  is taken literally).  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  GNU  find	-print0  option produces input suitable for this mode.

ARGUMENTS

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

NOTE

       restorecon does not follow symbolic links.

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

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

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