chcon

chcon changes the SELinux security context of the selected files.

• GNU Coreutils Project Homepage [EN]

• GNU Coreutils [EN] @ Fedora Package
• GNU Coreutils [EN] @ Homebrew Formula

Documentation

• chcon [EN] @ GNU Coreutils Manual

• man 1 'chcon' [EN]

Parameters

-r ROLE, --role=ROLE

Set ROLE in the target security context.

-t TYPE, --type=TYPE

Set TYPE in the target security context.

-u USER, --user=USER

Set USER in the target security context.

-h, --no-dereference

Affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file.

-R, --recursive

Change files and directories recursively.

Examples

Make repositories avaliable for Apache

chcon --recursive --no-dereference --type='httpd_sys_rw_content_t' \
   '/var/svn/source' '/var/svn/sysconfig'