CHKCON(8)

🦋 CHKCON(8) — bestie, let's check that context 🦋

okay so welcome to the manual page for chkcon, from the SELinux Command Line documentation. it lives in section 8, iykyk. the whole point is to determine if a security context is valid for a given binary policy. no cap. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

chkcon — determine if a security context is valid for a given binary policy.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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# 💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this utility validates (the string representation of) a security context specified by the argument `context` against configuration data read in from a policy database binary representation file specified by the argument `policy_file`. that's literally it. it's giving "is this context valid for this binary policy?" and honestly? slay. 🫶

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# 🗂️ FILES 🗂️

- `policy file`

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# 👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page (and just the manual page) was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>. like, only the manual page, bestie. shoutout to Manoj, iconic behavior. 💜

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and that's the page! this was the <hotpink>CHKCON(8)</hotpink> manual from <rainbow>SELinux</rainbow>, dated <yellow>Mar 12 2005</yellow>. stay valid, bestie 💖✨