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restorecon(8) SELinux User Command restorecon(8)
restorecon - restore file(s) default SELinux security contexts.
restorecon [-r|-R] [-m] [-n] [-p] [-v] [-i] [-F] [-U] [-W] [-I|-D]
[-x] [-e directory] pathname ...
restorecon [-f infilename] [-e directory] [-r|-R] [-m] [-n] [-p]
[-v] [-i] [-F] [-U] [-W] [-I|-D] [-x] [-T nthreads]
This manual page describes the restorecon program.
This program is primarily used to set the security context
(extended attributes) on one or more files.
It can also be run at any other time to correct inconsistent
labels, to add support for newly-installed policy or, by using the
-n option, to passively check whether the file contexts are all
set as specified by the active policy (default behavior).
If a file object does not have a context, restorecon will write
the default context to the file object's extended attributes. If a
file object has a context, restorecon will only modify the type
portion of the security context. The -F and -U options will force
a replacement of the entire context.
If a file is labeled with customizable SELinux type (for list of
customizable types see
/etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/customizable_types),
restorecon won't reset the label unless the -F option is used.
It is the same executable as setfiles but operates in a slightly
different manner depending on its argv[0].
-e directory
exclude a directory (repeat the option to exclude more than
one directory, Requires full path).
-f infilename
infilename contains a list of files to be processed. Use
“-” for stdin.
-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.
-U In addition to the type portion also change the user and
role portions, but not the range portion.
-h, -? display usage information and exit.
-i ignore files that do not exist.
-I ignore digest to force checking of labels even if the
stored SHA1 digest matches the specfiles SHA1 digest. The
digest will then be updated provided there are no errors.
See the NOTES section for further details.
-D Set or update any directory SHA1 digests. Use this option
to enable usage of the security.sehash extended attribute.
-m do not read /proc/mounts to obtain a list of non-seclabel
mounts to be excluded from relabeling checks. Setting this
option is useful where there is a non-seclabel fs mounted
with a seclabel fs mounted on a directory below this.
-n don't change any file labels (passive check). To display
the files whose labels would be changed, add -v.
-o outfilename
Deprecated - This option is no longer supported.
-p show progress by printing the number of files in 1k blocks
unless relabeling the entire OS, that will then show the
approximate percentage complete. Note that the -p and -v
options are mutually exclusive.
-R, -r change files and directories file labels recursively
(descend directories).
-v show changes in file labels. Multiple -v options increase
the verbosity. Note that the -v and -p options are mutually
exclusive.
-W display warnings about entries that had no matching files
by outputting the selabel_stats(3) results.
-0 the separator for the input items is assumed to be the null
character (instead of the white space). The quotes and the
backslash characters are also treated as normal characters
that can form valid input. This option finally also
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 -print0
option of GNU find produces input suitable for this mode.
-x prevent restorecon from crossing file system boundaries.
-T nthreads
use up to nthreads threads. Specify 0 to create as many
threads as there are available CPU cores; 1 to use only a
single thread (default); or any positive number to use the
given number of threads (if possible).
pathname ... The pathname for the file(s) to be relabeled.
1. restorecon by default does not operate recursively on
directories. Paths leading up the final component of the
file(s) are canonicalized using realpath(3) before labeling.
2. If the pathname specifies the root directory and the -vR or
-vr options are set and the audit system is running, then an
audit event is automatically logged stating that a "mass
relabel" took place using the message label FS_RELABEL.
3. To improve performance when relabeling file systems
recursively (i.e. the -R or -r option is set), the -D option
to restorecon will cause it to store a SHA1 digest of the
default specfiles set in an extended attribute named
security.sehash on each directory specified in pathname ...
once the relabeling has been completed successfully. These
digests will be checked should restorecon -D be rerun with the
same pathname parameters. See selinux_restorecon(3) for
further details.
The -I option will ignore the SHA1 digest from each directory
specified in pathname ... and provided the -n option is NOT
set and recursive mode is set, files will be relabeled as
required with the digests then being updated provided there
are no errors.
Fix labeling of /var/www/ including all sub-directories and list all context changes
# restorecon -rv /var/www/
List mislabeled files in user home directory and what the correct label should be
# restorecon -nvr ~
Fix labeling of files listed in file_list file, ignoring any that do not exist
# restorecon -vif file_list
This man page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>. Some
of the content of this man page was taken from the setfiles man
page written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>. The program
was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.
setfiles(8), fixfiles(8), load_policy(8), checkpolicy(8),
customizable_types(5)
This page is part of the selinux (Security-Enhanced Linux user-
space libraries and tools) project. Information about the project
can be found at ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki⟩.
If you have a bug report for this manual page, see
⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Contributing⟩.
This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At
that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
the repository was 2025-08-04.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
man-pages@man7.org
10 June 2016 restorecon(8)
Pages that refer to this page: unsetfiles(1), selinux_restorecon_xattr(3), fixfiles(8), restorecond(8), restorecon_xattr(8), selinux(8), semanage-fcontext(8), setfiles(8)
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