setlabel(1) User Commands setlabel(1)NAMEsetlabel - move files to zone with corresponding sensitivity label
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/setlabel newlabel filename...
DESCRIPTIONsetlabel moves files into the zone whose label corresponds to newlabel.
The old file pathname is adjusted so that it is relative to the root
pathname of the new zone. If the old pathname for a file's parent
directory does not exist as a directory in the new zone, the file is
not moved. Once moved, the file might no longer be accessible in the
current zone.
Unless newlabel and filename have been specified, no labels are set.
Labels are defined by the security administrator at your site. The sys‐
tem always displays labels in uppercase. Users can enter labels in any
combination of uppercase and lowercase. Incremental changes to labels
are supported.
Refer to setflabel(3TSOL) for a complete description of the conditions
that are required to satisfy this command, and the privileges that are
needed to execute this command.
EXIT STATUSsetlabel exits with one of the following values:
0 Successful completion.
1 Usage error.
2 Error in getting, setting or translating the label.
USAGE
On the command line, enclose the label in double quotes unless the
label is only one word. Without quotes, a second word or letter sepa‐
rated by a space is interpreted as a second argument.
% setlabel SECRET somefile
% setlabel "TOP SECRET" somefile
Use any combination of upper and lowercase letters. You can separate
items in a label with blanks, tabs, commas or slashes (/). Do not use
any other punctuation.
% setlabel "ts a b" somefile
% setlabel "ts,a,b" somefile
% setlabel "ts/a b" somefile
% setlabel " TOP SECRET A B " somefile
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Set a Label.
To set somefile's label to SECRET A:
example% setlabel "Secret a" somefile
Example 2 Turn On a Compartment.
Plus and minus signs can be used to modify an existing label. A plus
sign turns on the specified compartment for somefile's label.
example% setlabel +b somefile
Example 3 Turn Off a Compartment.
A minus sign turns off the compartments that are associated with a
classification. To turn off compartment A in somefile's label:
example% setlabel-A somefile
If an incremental change is being made to an existing label and the
first character of the label is a hyphen (−), a preceding double-hyphen
(--) is required.
To turn off compartment -A in somefile's label:
example% setlabel-- -A somefile
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWtsu │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Committed │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOsetflabel(3TSOL), label_encodings(4), attributes(5)NOTES
The functionality described on this manual page is available only if
the system is configured with Trusted Extensions.
This implementation of setting a label is meaningful for the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) Mandatory Access Control (MAC) policy. For
more information, see label_encodings(4).
SunOS 5.10 20 Jul 2007 setlabel(1)
