CHROOT
Section: User Commands (8)
Updated: April 2010
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NAME
chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory
SYNOPSIS
chroot
[OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...]
chroot
OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.
- --userspec=USER:GROUP
-
specify user and group (ID or name) to use
- --groups=G_LIST
-
specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
If no command is given, run ``${SHELL} -i'' (default: /bin/sh).
AUTHOR
Written by Roland McGrath.
REPORTING BUGS
Report chroot bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report chroot translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
chroot(2)
The full documentation for
chroot
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
chroot
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils 'chroot invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- SEE ALSO
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