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NAME

       setfiles - set SELinux file security contexts.

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page describes the setfiles program.

       This program is primarily used to initialize the security context fields (extended attributes) on one  or
       more  filesystems  (or  parts  of them).  Usually it is initially run as part of the SELinux installation
       process (a step commonly known as labeling).

       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) or by some other policy (see the -c option).

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

OPTIONS

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

       -d     show what specification matched each file (do not abort validation after 10 errors).

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

       -f     take a list of files to be processed from an input file.

       -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.

       -l     log changes in file labels to syslog.

       -n     don't change any file labels (passive check).

       -o filename
              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.)

       -q     suppress non-error output.

       -r rootpath
              use an alternate root path.

       -s     take  a  list  of  files  from  standard  input  instead of using a pathname from the command line
              (equivalent to -f -).

       -v     show changes in file labels.

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

       -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

       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 specifications indicate different security contexts, then a warning is displayed
       but the file is still labeled based on the last matching specification other than <<none>>.

       pathname...
              The  pathname  for  the root directory of each file system to be relabeled or a specific directory
              within a filesystem that should be recursively descended and relabeled or the pathname of  a  file
              that should be relabeled.  Not used if the -f or 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

       restorecon(8), load_policy(8), checkpolicy(8)

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