As mentioned earlier, generally, the parent directory SELinux context is assigned to the newly created file, if it is created using the vim, cp, or touch command.

If a file is moved using the mv command, or copied using the cp -a command, the original SELinux context will remain unchanged.

Often, we need to modify the file context as per the destination directory, so that a process can access the file object when required. In the following sections, we discuss the different utilities that can be used to achieve this.