setfiles(8)

NAME
setfiles - set file SELinux security contexts.

SYNOPSIS
setfiles [-c policy ] [-d] [-l] [-n] [-e directory ] [-o filename ] [-L labelprefix ] [-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 database (extended attributes) on one or more filesystems. This program is initially run as part of the SE Linux installation process.

It can also 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.

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.

-l  log changes in file labels to syslog.

-n  don't change any file labels.

-p  show progress by printing * every 1000 files.

-q  suppress non-error output.

-r rootpath
    use an alternate root path

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

-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.

-L labelprefix
    Tells selinux to only use the file context that match this prefix for labeling, -L can be called multiple times. Can speed up labeling if you are only doing one directory.

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

-s  take a list of files from standard input instead of using a pathname on the command line.

-v  show changes in file labels.

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

-0  Input items are terminated by a null character instead of by whitespace, and the quotes and backslash are not special (every character is taken literally). 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 GNU find -print0 option 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. Not used if 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
load_policy(8), checkpolicy(8)