NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

       restorecon -f infilename [-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  also be run at any other time to correct inconsistent labels, to add support for newly-installed
       policy or, by using the -n option, to passively check whether the file contexts are all set as  specified
       by the active policy (default behavior).

       If  a file object does not have a context, restorecon will write the default context to the file object's
       extended attributes. If a file object has a context, restorecon will only modify the type portion of  the
       security context.  The -F option will force a replacement of the entire context.

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

OPTIONS

       -e directory
              exclude a directory (repeat the option to exclude more than one directory, Requires full path).

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

       -F     Force reset of context to match file_context for customizable files, and the default file context,
              changing the user, role, range portion as well as the type.

       -h, -? display usage information and exit.

       -i     ignore files that do not exist.

       -n     don't change any file labels (passive check).  To display the files whose labels would be changed,
              add -v.

       -o outfilename
              Deprecated, SELinux policy will probably block this access.  Use shell redirection to save list of
              files with incorrect context in filename.

       -p     show progress by printing * every 1024 files.  (If you relabel the entire OS, this will  show  you
              the percentage complete.)

       -R, -r change files and directories file labels recursively (descend directories).
              Note:  restorecon  reports warnings on paths without default labels only if called non-recursively
              or in verbose mode.

       -v     show changes in file labels, if type or role are going to be changed.

       -0     the separator for the input items is assumed to be  the  null  character  (instead  of  the  white
              space).   The  quotes  and the backslash characters are also treated as normal characters that can
              form valid input.  This option finally also 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 -print0 option of GNU find produces input suitable for this mode.

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

NOTE

       restorecon does not follow symbolic links and by default it does not operate recursively on directories.

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

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

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