---
name: "semanage-login"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "policycoreutils-python-utils"
version: "3.8.1-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/semanage-login"
---

# semanage-login(8)

SELinux Policy Management linux user to SELinux User mapping tool

## NAME

**semanage-login - SELinux Policy Management linux user to SELinux User mapping tool**

## SYNOPSIS

**semanage login \[-h\] \[-n\] \[-N\] \[-S STORE\] \[ --add -s SEUSER -r RANGE LOGIN \| --delete LOGIN \| --deleteall \| --extract \| --list \[-C\] \| --modify -s SEUSER -r RANGE LOGIN \]**

## DESCRIPTION

semanage is used to configure certain elements of SELinux policy without requiring modification to or recompilation from policy sources. **semanage login** controls the mapping between a Linux User and the SELinux User. It can be used to turn on confined users. For example you could define that a particular user or group of users will login to a system as the user\_u user. Prefix the group name with a '%' sign to indicate a group name.

## OPTIONS

- *-h, --help*

  Show this help message and exit

- *-n, --noheading*

  Do not print heading when listing the specified object type

- *-N, --noreload*

  Do not reload policy after commit

- *-C, --locallist*

  List local customizations

- *-S STORE, --store STORE*

  Select an alternate SELinux Policy Store to manage

- *-a, --add*

  Add a record of the specified object type

- *-d, --delete*

  Delete a record of the specified object type

- *-m, --modify*

  Modify a record of the specified object type

- *-l, --list*

  List records of the specified object type

- *-E, --extract*

  Extract customizable commands, for use within a transaction

- *-D, --deleteall*

  Remove all local customizations

- *-s SEUSER, --seuser SEUSER*

  SELinux user name

- *-r RANGE, --range RANGE*

  MLS/MCS Security Range (MLS/MCS Systems only) SELinux Range for SELinux login mapping defaults to the SELinux user record range. SELinux Range for SELinux user defaults to s0.

## EXAMPLE

```
Set the default SELinux user on the system to guest_u
# semanage login -m -s guest_u __default__
Map user gijoe to SELinux user staff_u and assign MLS range SystemLow-Secret
# semanage login -a -s staff_u -rSystemLow-Secret gijoe
Map all users in the engineering group to SELinux user staff_u
# semanage login -a -s staff_u %engineering
```

## SEE ALSO

[**selinux**(8)](/selinux/8.md), [**semanage**(8)](/semanage/8.md), [**semanage-user**(8)](/semanage-user/8.md)

## AUTHOR

This man page was written by Daniel Walsh \<dwalsh@redhat.com\>