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sestatus.conf(5) sestatus configuration file sestatus.conf(5)
sestatus.conf - The sestatus(8) configuration file.
The sestatus.conf file is used by the sestatus(8) command with the
-v option to determine what file and process security contexts
should be displayed.
The fully qualified path name of the configuration file is:
/etc/sestatus.conf or <vendordir>/sestatus.conf if it is
not available
The file consists of two optional sections as described in the
FILE FORMAT section. Whether these exist or not, the following
will always be displayed:
The current process context
The init process context
The controlling terminal file context
The format consists of two optional sections as follows:
[files]
file_name
[file_name]
...
[process]
executable_file_name
[executable_file_name]
...
Where:
[files]
The start of the file list block.
file_name
One or more fully qualified file names, each on a
new line will that will have its context displayed.
If the file does not exist, then it is ignored. If
the file is a symbolic link, then sestatus -v will
also display the target file context.
[process]
The start of the process list block.
executable_file_name
One or more fully qualified executable file names
that should it be an active process, have its
context displayed. Each entry is on a new line.
# /etc/sestatus.conf
[files]
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/bin/bash
/bin/login
/lib/libc.so.6
/lib/ld-linux.so.2
/lib/ld.so.1
[process]
/sbin/mingetty
/sbin/agetty
/usr/sbin/sshd
selinux(8), sestatus(8)
This page is part of the selinux (Security-Enhanced Linux user-
space libraries and tools) project. Information about the project
can be found at ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki⟩.
If you have a bug report for this manual page, see
⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Contributing⟩.
This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux⟩ on 2026-08-04. (At
that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
the repository was 2026-08-03.) If you discover any rendering
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(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
man-pages@man7.org
Security Enhanced Linux 26-Nov-2011 sestatus.conf(5)
Pages that refer to this page: sestatus(8)
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