secon
Display SELinux security contexts
TLDR
Get current execution context
$ secon
Get context of a process$ secon --pid 1
Get context of a file$ secon --file path/to/file
Get context of a symlink (don't resolve)$ secon --link path/to/symlink
Parse a context specification$ secon system_u:system_r:container_t:s0
SYNOPSIS
secon [options] [context]
DESCRIPTION
secon retrieves and displays SELinux security contexts. It can show the context of the current execution, processes, files, or parse context specifications.
Output includes user, role, type, and level components of the SELinux context.
PARAMETERS
--pid pid
Get context of specified process--file path
Get context of file (follows symlinks)--link path
Get context of symlink (don't follow)
CAVEATS
Requires SELinux to be enabled. File context may differ from actual access context.
HISTORY
Part of libselinux-utils, providing SELinux context inspection tools.
