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.TH CHKCON 8 "Mar 12 2005" "SELinux" "SELinux Command Line documentation"
.SH NAME
chkcon \-  determine if a security context is valid for a given binary policy
.SH SYNOPSIS
chkcon policy_file context
.SH DESCRIPTION
This utility validates (the string representation of) a security context
specified by the argument
.I context
against configuration data read in from a policy database binary
representation file specified by the argument
.I policy_file.
.SH FILES
policy file
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page (and just the manual page) was written by Manoj
Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>.