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restorecon(8)                SELinux User Command                restorecon(8)
NAME
       restorecon - restore file(s) default SELinux security contexts.
SYNOPSIS
       restorecon  [-r|-R]  [-m]  [-n]  [-p]  [-v]  [-i] [-F] [-W] [-I|-D] [-e
       directory] pathname ...
       restorecon [-f infilename] [-e directory] [-r|-R] [-m] [-n]  [-p]  [-v]
       [-i] [-F] [-W] [-I|-D]
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.
       If  a  file is labeled with customizable SELinux type (for list of cus-
       tomizable  types   see   /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/customiza-
       ble_types),  restorecon  won't  reset the label unless the -F option is
       used.
       It is the same executable as setfiles but operates in a  slightly  dif-
       ferent manner depending on its 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.
       -I     ignore  digest  to  force  checking of labels even if the stored
              SHA1 digest matches the specfiles SHA1 digest. The  digest  will
              then be updated provided there are no errors. See the NOTES sec-
              tion for further details.
       -D     Set or update any directory SHA1 digests.  Use  this  option  to
              enable usage of the security.restorecon_last extended attribute.
       -m     do not read /proc/mounts to obtain a list of non-seclabel mounts
              to be excluded from relabeling checks.  Setting this  option  is
              useful  where there is a non-seclabel fs mounted with a seclabel
              fs mounted on a directory below this.
       -n     don't change any file labels (passive check).   To  display  the
              files whose labels would be changed, add -v.
       -o outfilename
              Deprecated - This option is no longer supported.
       -p     show  progress  by  printing  the  number  of files in 1k blocks
              unless relabeling the entire OS, that will then show the approx-
              imate  percentage  complete. Note that the -p and -v options are
              mutually exclusive.
       -R, -r change files and directories file  labels  recursively  (descend
              directories).
       -v     show  changes  in  file labels. Multiple -v options increase the
              verbosity. Note that the -v and -p options are  mutually  exclu-
              sive.
       -W     display  warnings  about  entries  that had no matching files by
              outputting the selabel_stats(3) results.
       -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.   Use-
              ful  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.
NOTES
       1.  restorecon  does  not  follow symbolic links and by default it does
           not operate recursively on directories.
       2.  If the pathname specifies the root directory and  the  -vR  or  -vr
           options  are  set  and  the  audit system is running, then an audit
           event is automatically logged stating that a  "mass  relabel"  took
           place using the message label FS_RELABEL.
       3.  To  improve  performance  when  relabeling file systems recursively
           (i.e. the -R or -r option is set), the -D option to restorecon will
           cause  it to store a SHA1 digest of the default specfiles set in an
           extended attribute named security.restorecon_last on the  directory
           specified  in  each pathname ...  once the relabeling has been com-
           pleted successfully. This digest will be checked should  restorecon
           -D be rerun with the same pathname parameters. See selinux_restore-
           con(3) for further details.
           The -I option will ignore the SHA1 digest from each directory spec-
           ified  in  pathname ...   and provided the -n option is NOT set and
           recursive mode is set, files will be relabeled as required with the
           digest then being updated provided there are no errors.
AUTHOR
       This  man  page  was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh AT redhat.com>.  Some of
       the content of this man page was taken from the setfiles man page writ-
       ten  by  Russell Coker <russell AT coker.au>.  The program was written
       by Dan Walsh <dwalsh AT redhat.com>.
SEE ALSO
       setfiles(8), fixfiles(8),  load_policy(8),  checkpolicy(8),  customiza-
       ble_types(5)
                                 10 June 2016                    restorecon(8)