chcon Command Examples

Change SELinux security context of a file or files/directories. See also: secon, restorecon, semanage-fcontext. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/chcon-invocation.html.

• View security context of a file:

ls {{[-lZ|-l --context]}} {{path/to/file}}

• Change the security context of a target file, using a reference file:

chcon --reference {{reference_file}} {{target_file}}

• Change the full SELinux security context of a file:

chcon {{user}}:{{role}}:{{type}}:{{range/level}} {{filename}}

• Change only the user part of SELinux security context:

chcon {{[-u|--user]}} {{user}} {{filename}}

• Change only the role part of SELinux security context:

chcon {{[-r|--role]}} {{role}} {{filename}}

• Change only the type part of SELinux security context:

chcon {{[-t|--type]}} {{type}} {{filename}}

• Change only the range/level part of SELinux security context:

chcon {{[-l|--range]}} {{range/level}} {{filename}}