secon - Unix, Linux Command

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.

Tag	Description
-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)

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