matchmediacon(3)

matchmediacon3

Get the default selinux security context for the specified mediatype from the policy

Usage

#include <selinux/selinux.h>

int matchmediacon(const char *media, char **con);

Overview

matchmediacon() matches the specified media type with the media contexts configuration and sets the security context con to refer to the resulting context.

Note: Caller must free returned security context con using freecon(3).

Return value

Returns 0 on success or -1 otherwise.

Files

/etc/selinux/{POLICYTYPE}/contexts/files/media

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.1–4.0
  2. 5.0–7
  3. 8–13

From libselinux1-dev 3.8.1-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.