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SECON(1) General Commands Manual SECON(1)

NAME

secon - See an SELinux context, from a file, program or user input.

SYNOPSIS

secon [-hVurtscmPRfLp] [CONTEXT]
[--file] FILE
[--link] FILE
[--pid] PID

DESCRIPTION

See a part of a context. The context is taken from a file, pid, user input or the context in which secon is originally executed.

shows the current version of secon
shows the usage information for secon
outputs data in a format suitable for a prompt
outputs data with the associated ANSI color codes (requires -P)
show the user of the security context
show the role of the security context
show the type of the security context
show the sensitivity level of the security context
show the clearance level of the security context
show the sensitivity level and clearance, as a range, of the security context
outputs the sensitivity level and clearance in an untranslated format.
gets the context from the specified file FILE
gets the context from the specified file FILE (doesn't follow symlinks)
gets the context from the specified process PID
gets the exec context from the specified process PID
gets the fscreate context from the specified process PID
gets the key context from the specified process PID
gets the context from the current process
gets the exec context from the current process
gets the fscreate context from the current process
gets the key context from the current process
gets the context from the parent of the current process
gets the exec context from the parent of the current process
gets the fscreate context from the parent of the current process
gets the key context from the parent of the current process

Additional argument CONTEXT may be provided and will be used if no options have been specified to make secon get its context from another source. If that argument is - then the context will be read from stdin.
If there is no argument, secon will try reading a context from stdin, if that is not a tty, otherwise secon will act as though --self had been passed.

If none of --user, --role, --type, --level or --mls-range is passed. Then all of them will be output.

EXAMPLE

Show SElinux context of the init process
# secon --pid 1
Parse the type portion of given security context
# secon -t system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_rw_content_t:s0

SEE ALSO

chcon(1)

AUTHORS

James Antill (james.antill@redhat.com)
April 2006 Security Enhanced Linux