| .TH "restorecon" "8" "2002031409" "" "" |
| .SH "NAME" |
| restorecon \- restore file(s) default SELinux security contexts. |
| |
| .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
| .B restorecon |
| .I [\-o outfilename ] [\-R] [\-n] [\-p] [\-v] [\-e directory ] pathname... |
| .P |
| .B restorecon |
| .I \-f infilename [\-o outfilename ] [\-e directory ] [\-R] [\-n] [\-p] [\-v] [\-F] |
| |
| .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| This manual page describes the |
| .BR restorecon |
| program. |
| .P |
| This program is primarily used to set the security context |
| (extended attributes) on one or more files. |
| .P |
| It can be run at any time to correct errors, to add support for |
| new policy, or with the \-n option it can just check whether the file |
| contexts are all as you expect. |
| |
| .SH "OPTIONS" |
| .TP |
| .B \-i |
| ignore files that do not exist |
| .TP |
| .B \-f infilename |
| infilename contains a list of files to be processed by application. Use \- for stdin. |
| .TP |
| .B \-e directory |
| directory to exclude (repeat option for more than one directory.) |
| .TP |
| .B \-R \-r |
| change files and directories file labels recursively |
| .TP |
| .B \-n |
| don't change any file labels. |
| .TP |
| .B \-o outfilename |
| save list of files with incorrect context in outfilename. |
| .TP |
| .B \-p |
| show progress by printing * every 1000 files. |
| .TP |
| .B \-v |
| show changes in file labels. |
| .TP |
| .B \-vv |
| show changes in file labels, if type, role, or user are changing. |
| .TP |
| .B \-F |
| Force reset of context to match file_context for customizable files, or the user section, if it has changed. |
| .TP |
| .SH "ARGUMENTS" |
| .B pathname... |
| The pathname for the file(s) to be relabeled. |
| .SH NOTE |
| restorecon does not follow symbolic links. |
| |
| .SH "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>. |
| |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR load_policy (8), |
| .BR checkpolicy (8) |
| .BR setfiles (8) |