RUNCON

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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NAME

runcon - run command with specified SELinux security context  

SYNOPSIS

runcon CONTEXT COMMAND [args]
runcon [ -c ] [-u USER] [-r ROLE] [-t TYPE] [-l RANGE] COMMAND [args]  

DESCRIPTION

Run COMMAND with completely-specified CONTEXT, or with current or transitioned security context modified by one or more of LEVEL, ROLE, TYPE, and USER.

If none of -c, -t, -u, -r, or -l, is specified, the first argument is used as the complete context. Any additional arguments after COMMAND are interpreted as arguments to the command.

Note that only carefully-chosen contexts are likely to successfully run.

Run a program in a different SELinux security context. With neither CONTEXT nor COMMAND, print the current security context.

CONTEXT
Complete security context
-c, --compute
compute process transition context before modifying
-t, --type=TYPE
type (for same role as parent)
-u, --user=USER
user identity
-r, --role=ROLE
role
-l, --range=RANGE
levelrange
--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
 

AUTHOR

Written by Russell Coker.  

REPORTING BUGS

Report runcon bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for runcon is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and runcon programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils aqruncon invocationaq

should give you access to the complete manual.