restorecon(8)                                                                                                      restorecon(8)



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


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

       restorecon -f infilename [-o outfilename ] [-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  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.


OPTIONS
       -i     ignore files that do not exist

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

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

       -R -r  change files and directories file labels recursively

       -n     don't change any file labels.

       -o outfilename
              save list of files with incorrect context in outfilename.

       -p     show progress by printing * every 1000 files.

       -v     show changes in file labels.

       -vv    show changes in file labels, if type, role, or user are changing.

       -F     Force reset of context to match file_context for customizable files, or the user section, if it has changed.


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

NOTE
       restorecon does not follow symbolic links.


AUTHOR
       This man page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalshATredhat.com>.  Some of the content of this man page was taken from the set-
       files  man  page  written  by  Russell  Coker  <russellATcoker.au>.  The program was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@red-
       hat.com>.


SEE ALSO
       load_policy(8), checkpolicy(8) setfiles(8)



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