setfiles(8)															       setfiles(8)

NAME

       setfiles - set file SELinux security contexts.

SYNOPSIS

       setfiles [-c policy ] [-d] [-l] [-n] [-e directory ] [-o filename ] [-q] [-s] [-v] [-vv|-p] [-W] [-F] spec_file pathname...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page describes the setfiles program.

       This  program is primarily used to initialize the security context database (extended attributes) on one or more filesystems.  This program
       is initially run as part of the SE Linux installation process.

       It can also 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
       contexts 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

       -c     check the validity of the contexts against the specified binary policy.

       -d     show what specification matched each file.

       -l     log changes in file labels to syslog.

       -n     don't change any file labels.

       -p     show progress by printing * every 1000 files.

       -q     suppress non-error output.

       -r rootpath
	      use an alternate root path

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

       -F     Force reset of context to match file_context for customizable files

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

       -s     take a list of files from standard input instead of using a pathname on the command line.

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

       -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.

       -W     display warnings about entries that had no matching files.

       -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

       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 specifications and those specifi-
       cations indicate different security contexts, then a warning is displayed but the file is still labeled based on the last matching specifi-
       cation other than <<none>>.

       pathname...
	      The pathname for the root directory of each file system to be relabeled.	Not used if the -s option is used.

AUTHOR

       This man page was written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.  The program was written by Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>

SEE ALSO

       load_policy(8), checkpolicy(8)

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