| .TH CHECKPOLICY 8 |
| .SH NAME |
| checkpolicy \- SELinux policy compiler |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B checkpolicy |
| .I "[\-b[F]] [\-C] [\-d] [\-U handle_unknown (allow,deny,reject)] [\-M] [\-c policyvers] [\-o output_file|\-] [\-S] [\-t target_platform (selinux,xen)] [\-O] [\-E] [\-V] [input_file]" |
| .br |
| .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| This manual page describes the |
| .BR checkpolicy |
| command. |
| .PP |
| .B checkpolicy |
| is a program that checks and compiles a SELinux security policy configuration |
| into a binary representation that can be loaded into the kernel. If no |
| input file name is specified, |
| .B checkpolicy |
| will attempt to read from policy.conf or policy, depending on whether the \-b |
| flag is specified. |
| |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .B \-b,\-\-binary |
| Read an existing binary policy file rather than a source policy.conf file. |
| .TP |
| .B \-F,\-\-conf |
| Write policy.conf file rather than binary policy file. Can only be used with binary policy file. |
| .TP |
| .B \-C,\-\-cil |
| Write CIL policy file rather than binary policy file. |
| .TP |
| .B \-d,\-\-debug |
| Enter debug mode after loading the policy. |
| .TP |
| .B \-U,\-\-handle-unknown <action> |
| Specify how the kernel should handle unknown classes or permissions (deny, allow or reject). |
| .TP |
| .B \-M,\-\-mls |
| Enable the MLS policy when checking and compiling the policy. |
| .TP |
| .B \-c policyvers |
| Specify the policy version, defaults to the latest. |
| .TP |
| .B \-o,\-\-output filename |
| Write a policy file (binary, policy.conf, or CIL policy) |
| to the specified filename. If - is given as filename, |
| write it to standard output. |
| .TP |
| .B \-S,\-\-sort |
| Sort ocontexts before writing out the binary policy. This option makes output of checkpolicy consistent with binary policies created by semanage and secilc. |
| .TP |
| .B \-t,\-\-target |
| Specify the target platform (selinux or xen). |
| .TP |
| .B \-O,\-\-optimize |
| Optimize the final kernel policy (remove redundant rules). |
| .TP |
| .B \-E,\-\-werror |
| Treat warnings as errors |
| .TP |
| .B \-V,\-\-version |
| Show version information. |
| .TP |
| .B \-h,\-\-help |
| Show usage information. |
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| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| SELinux Reference Policy documentation at https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/wiki |
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| .SH AUTHOR |
| This manual page was written by Árpád Magosányi <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu>, |
| and edited by Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>. |
| The program was written by Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>. |
