chcon

Change SELinux security context of a file or files/directories. See also: secon, restorecon, semanage-fcontext. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chcon.

• View security context of a file:

ls -lZ path/to/file

• Change the security context of a target file, using a reference file:

chcon --reference=reference_file target_file

• Change the full SELinux security context of a file:

chcon user:role:type:range/level filename

• Change only the user part of SELinux security context:

chcon -u user filename

• Change only the role part of SELinux security context:

chcon -r role filename

• Change only the type part of SELinux security context:

chcon -t type filename

• Change only the range/level part of SELinux security context:

chcon -l range/level filename