SECON(1)

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

-C, --color
    outputs data with the associated ANSI color codes (requires -P)

-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

--pid-key
    gets the key 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

--current-key, --self-key
    gets the key 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

--parent-key
    gets the key 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 its context from another source. If that argument is - then the context will be read from stdin.
If there is no argument, 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.

EXAMPLE
Show SElinux context of the init process
# secon --pid 1
Parse the type portion of given security context
# secon -t system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_rw_content_t:s0

SEE ALSO
chcon(1)

AUTHORS
James Antill (james.antill@redhat.com)