findcon(1)						      General Commands Manual							findcon(1)

NAME

       findcon - SELinux file context search tool

SYNOPSIS

       findcon FCLIST [OPTIONS] [EXPRESSION]

DESCRIPTION

       findcon allows the user to search for files with a specified context.  Results can be filtered by object class as described below.

FCLIST

       The findcon tool operates upon a file context list source.  There are three valid file context lists.

       directory
	      If  FCLIST  is  a  name of a directory then begin the search at that directory and recurse within it.  Be sure there are no circular
	      mounts within it.

       file_contexts
	      If FCLIST is the name of a file_contexts file (e.g., /etc/selinux/strict/contexts/files/file_contexts) then open that file and  find
	      matching entries.

       database
	      If FCLIST is the name of a database as created by a previous run of indexcon or apol then open the database and execute queries into
	      it.

EXPRESSION

       The following options allow the user to specify which files to print.  A file must meet all specified criteria.	If no expression  is  pro-
       vided, all files are printed.

       -t TYPE, --type=TYPE
	      Search for files with a context containing the type TYPE.

       -u USER, --user=USER
	      Search for files with a context containing the user USER.

       -r ROLE, --role=ROLE
	      Search for files with a context containing the role ROLE.

       -m RANGE, --mls-range=RANGE
	      Search for files with a context with the MLS range of RANGE.  Note that findcon ignores the SELinux translation library, if present.
	      In addition, this flag is ignored if the FCLIST has no MLS information.

       --context=CONTEXT
	      Search for files matching this partial context.  This flag overrides -t, -u, -r, and -m.

       -p PATH, --path=PATH
	      Search for files which include PATH.

       -c CLASS, --class=CLASS
	      Search only files of object class CLASS.

OPTIONS

       The following additional options are available.

       -R, --regex
	      Search using regular expressions instead of exact string matching.  This option does not affect the --class flag.

       -h, --help
	      Print help information and exit.

       -V, --version
	      Print version information and exit.

PARTIAL CONTEXT

       The --context flag specifies a partial context, which is a a colon separated list of user, role, and type.  If the system supports MLS, the
       context	may  have a fourth field that gives the range.	If a field is not specified or is the literal asterisk, then the query will always
       match the field.

OBJECT CLASSES

       Valid object class strings are

       block, char, dir, fifo, file, link, or sock.

NOTE

       The findcon utility always operates on "raw" SELinux file contexts.  If the system has an installed translation library (i.e., libsetrans),
       those translations are ignored in favor of reading the original contexts from the filesystem (if FCFILE is a directory).

EXAMPLES

       findcon .
	      Find every context in the current directory and all of its subdirectories.

       findcon -u user_u .
	      Find every context whose user is user_u in the current directory and all subdirectories.

       findcon -u system_u -t bin_t file_contexts
	      Find entries user system_u and type bin_t within a file_contexts file, assuming that file_contexts is a file contexts file.

       findcon --context=system_u::bin_t file_contexts
	      This is equivalent to the previous example.

       findcon --context=system_u:*:bin_t:* file_contexts
	      This is also equivalent to the above example.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Jeremy A. Mowery <jmowery@tresys.com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright(C) 2003-2007 Tresys Technology, LLC

BUGS

       Please report bugs via an email to setools-bugs@tresys.com.

SEE ALSO

       replcon(1), indexcon(1)

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