SECON

Section: NSA (1)
Updated: April 2006
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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.

-V, --version: shows the current version of secon
-h, --help: shows the usage information for secon
-P, --prompt: outputs data in a format suitable for a prompt
-u, --user: show the user of the security context
-r, --role: show the role of the security context
-t, --type: show the type of the security context
-s, --sensitivity: show the sensitivity level of the security context
-c, --clearance: show the clearance level of the security context
-m, --mls-range: show the sensitivity level and clearance, as a range, of the security context
-R, --raw: outputs the sensitivity level and clearance in an untranslated format.
-f, --file: gets the context from the specified file FILE
-L, --link: gets the context from the specified file FILE (doesn't follow symlinks)
-p, --pid: gets the context from the specified process PID
--pid-exec: gets the exec context from the specified process PID
--pid-fs: gets the fscreate context from the specified process PID
--current, --self: gets the context from the current process
--current-exec, --self-exec: gets the exec context from the current process
--current-fs, --self-fs: gets the fscreate context from the current process
--parent: gets the context from the parent of the current process
--parent-exec: gets the exec context from the parent of the current process
--parent-fs: gets the fscreate 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 it's context from another source. If that argument is - then the context will be read from stdin.
If there is no arugment, 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.

AUTHORS

James Antill (james.antill@redhat.com)