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
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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.